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Scoop - NZ

The last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secured better terms than shattered Greece last week. The US, Canada, Britain, France, Greece, and other signatories at the London Debt Agreement of 1953 granted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a 50pc haircut on all German debt, worth ...

A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. IntelNews.org's Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports: We e ...

It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann’s account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public. His story of that campaign, and his own journey from naive computer geek to battle-hardened climate ninja, seems overwrought, maybe even paranoi ...

In the agency’s $2.8 billion budget for 2013, unveiled on Monday, they’ve allotted $7 million for a project titled “Avatar.” The project’s ultimate goal, not surprisingly, sounds a lot like the plot of the same-named (but much more expensive) flick. According the agency, “the Avatar program w ...

Back in 2007, during a similar outbreak of overheated rhetoric about war against Iran—at that time, Vice President Dick Cheney was pushing behind the scenes for a unilateral American strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities—a subversive report National Intelligence Estimate by the US intelligenc ...

Independent - London

Amid reports of arm-twisting by party apparatchiks and threats of retribution, Australian Labor MPs are consulting their consciences – and, in many cases, contemplating their wafer-thin majorities – as they ponder whether to support Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd in a leadership ballot on Monday.R ...

Anne Frank, the famous diarist and Holocaust victim, was put to death on account of her Jewish faith. But earlier this month, she was nonetheless secretly co-opted into the Mormon Church.Related StoriesNine-year-old boy charged with shooting a classmateArgentine train crash was avoidable, says ...

Iran has stepped up its production of higher-grade enriched uranium over the last few months, the UN nuclear agency said last night. Its confidential report will feed concerns about how quickly the Islamic republic could produce an atomic bomb.Related StoriesHamas in policy shift as it turns aga ...

A fourth inquest began yesterday into the death of a nine-week-old baby, whose parents say she was taken from a tent in the Outback by a wild dingo.Related StoriesGillard hopes leadership vote will end Rudd threatJulia Gillard challenges Kevin Rudd to fight Labor Party leadership contestAustrali ...

Gabe Watson, who spent 18 months in an Australian prison for the death of his wife during a honeymoon diving trip, has been acquitted of her murder by a court in Birmingham, Alabama.Related StoriesNine-year-old boy charged with shooting a classmateArgentine train crash was avoidable, says offici ...

Rogue Government.com

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.﻿

Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.﻿

Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.﻿

The International Monetary Fund approved on Friday just over $4.2 billion for Greece, the latest installment of a rescue package aimed at helping the country pull back from an impending debt default. ﻿

Innovation Canada

If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...

Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...

For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...

It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...

Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

There's no such thing as safe and accidents are always covered up. So why let Obama build a whole new generation of reactors? In March 2011, novelist Kristen Iversen's memoir, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, was waiting sedately among piles of other manuscript ...

Former Florida governor was critical of current field in a speech this week, prompting rumours he could be a surprise contender Speculation that a late challenger might still emerge in the increasingly bitter race for the Republican presidential nomination is set to surge after former Florida g ...

An excellent summation, at least from the political point of view, of where we are right now, how we got here, and the fact that the masses of humanity MUST wake up to the reality of the situation if the worst is to mitigated.

A winter storm left a "stripe of snow" across the Midwest before heading toward upstate New York and northern New England on Friday morning, weather.com reported. Meteorologist Tim Ballisty predicted that Chicago could receive "a half foot or more" of snow. "On Thursday into Friday, look for a ...

The Galloping Beaver

WWW.GREENPEACE.ORG has a disturbing post by Rex Weyler, "Canada: Climate Criminal". Rex offers a nice over-view of how the Stevie Slime came to poison us. At the dawn of the 21st century a new political regime has transformed Canada from global hero – once standing up for peace, people, a ...

As Morton says, Peter MacKay needs to go. And given the Harper Conservatives' penchant for feces flinging politics, I wouldn't be framing the requirement in the form of a request. MacKay, as shown in these emails obtained by the Toronto Star under an AIA request, clearly abused his ministerial ...

Right here. Transport Canada has "no regulatory concerns" with Enbridge's proposed marine operations for the Northern Gateway pipeline, clearing the way for supertankers to carry Canadian crude across the Pacific. And here's why.

During a discussion of gasoline prices, frequent Fox News guest Brent Bozell claimed that U.S. oil production has fallen under President Obama. In reality, the opposite is true: after increasing every year since 2009, oil production is at an eight-year high; gas prices continue to rise because ...

The re-emerging right-wing myth that low-income Americans aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes relies on flawed data: a report from the Heritage Foundation highlighting the fact that nearly half of Americans pay no federal income tax. In fact, while nearly half of Americans pay little to n ...

An emerging myth being pushed by the right contends that federal spending to rescue GM and Chrysler was unnecessary, and that the companies instead should have gone through a "traditional" bankruptcy. In fact, economists at the time explained that frozen credit markets made private financing fo ...

The Wall Street Journal attacked a congressional deal to extend unemployment insurance, arguing that jobs are now "easier to find" and that additional benefits would delay workers' re-entry into the workforce. But economists agree that at this point in the economic recovery, it is "vital" to ex ...

TPM Cafe

When you boil it down, much of the recent right-wing commentary on Iran consists of variations on the theme of just how futile diplomacy is. President Obama's handling of Iran has been subject to intense cross-pressures --and plenty of second-guessing -- at every step along the way. And now, hav ...

Senator Lindsey Graham is convinced the goal of Iran's nuclear program is military, and the contrast between Graham's certainty and the more judicious view of President Obama's director of national intelligence highlights critical points for a peaceful resolution of the issue -- or a war. Hat ti ...

House Oversight Committee Chairman, master car thief and generalcriminal Darrell Issa held a hearing today on the Obama administration's new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Claiming that the the hearing was "not abo ...

Writing in today's Washington Post, columnist Fareed Zakaria does a terrific job destroying some arguments for war with Iran. He does it by, of all things, citing history. First, Zakaria takes apart the argument, often made by Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, that the "window" to ...

A recent post over at The Economist's Democracy in America blog says the Syria showdown at the UN between the US, Russia, and China demonstrates a crucial yet underappreciated success of Obama foreign policy: Ten years back, America often found itself isolated, struggling to pull together "co ...

Public Citizen in Texas

While March is generally considered to be the beginning of tornado season, this year the season got an early and deadly start in late January when two people were killed by separate twisters in Alabama, and just yesterday, dozens of homes were damaged by a tornado in Georgia that knocked out pow ...

Citizens gather on the steps of the Lamar County Courthouse in support of Julia Triggs Crawford before the TransCanada suit to dismiss her Temporary Restraining Order is heard. Last week, local citizens from areas bordering the path of the proposed Texas leg of the TransCanada tar sands pipeline ...

Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to b ...

The other day at a dinner party I sat across from a climate scientist (seriously, a professor at a major university in the earth sciences department), who commented that his trips to the Artic this summer were somewhat daunting. When I asked him who were all these folks Governor Perry said were ...

Big Bend. The Guadalupe Mountains. Everything about them is iconic…everything but the air pollution that obscures the scenic viewscapes. Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Park are increasingly under attack from air pollution known as haze from coal plants and refineries. The Clean ...

Grassroots

mozambique200811-small.jpg From all corners of the world, small farmers, indigenous peoples and human rights activists have been percolating solutions upward to advance their rights to land, water and food. With 2011 behind us, Grassroots I ...

639335205_b0a485eaf0_m.jpg Two years following the earthquake, community-based organizations in Haiti are still advocating for the same changes and considerations as they did last year, namely land and housing rights, respect for national s ...

2785349288_8fd8b11a14_m.jpg Since returning from exile last year, former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been treated like an old friend by Haitian President Michel Martelly, rather than a brutal dictator responsible for the de ...

(China Daily) China has established its first national think tank on renewable energy to conduct research and develop programs and policies, as part of the country's effort to deal with climate change and carbon emissions.

(The Boston Globe) A dozen US Senators, including John Kerry and Scott Brown, are urging government officials to reauthorize a tax credit for wind energy projects that is set to expire at the end of the year.

(PostMedia News) An Alberta First Nation that says its treaty rights were violated when the province granted oil sands leases to Shell Canada has lost its bid to take the case to the country's top court.

(Yale Environment 360) The amounts of pollution produced by tar sands excavation sites are comparable to those of a medium-sized city or a large power plant, according to a new study by Environment Canada.

GreenBiz

Ford Motor Company's manager of Social Sustainability explains why his work has expanded beyond not just environmental issues, but to reach out far beyond the company's own factories and into the community.

A project aimed at making customers' utility data more easily accessible and understandable has already been embraced by a few leading utilities, and developers like Tendril and Opower are working to take it to the next level.

Duly Noted

Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

There are different strategies that presidential nominees pursue when selecting their running mates. One of the most popular is creating regional balance. For example, John F. Kennedy needed to reassure the racists in the Democratic Party, so he picked a Texan. That Texan became president whe ...

(Sorry -- I posted this and then deleted it, but it's back by semi-popular demand.) The right is trying to flood the zone with the message EEK! EEK! OBAMA MADE GAS PRICES SKYROCKET! -- here, for instance, is a clip of Eric Bolling singing "The Gasoline Blues" on Fox & Friends, if you can stan ...

At this point, pretty much every day brings a slew of new articles about how Republican insiders are "concerned about the tone." Today we have a typical piece from Politico that frames it like this: In 2008, after Republicans were routed in the presidential and congressional elections, there ...

I remember back when Obama first came into office and he was trying to stop the free-fall in the economy, polling consistently showed that the auto bailout was the least popular of his emergency measures. Of course, the bailout originated with the Bush administration which provided a bridge-loa ...

The right is trying to flood the zone with the message EEK! EEK! OBAMA MADE GAS PRICES SKYROCKET! -- here, for instance, is a clip of Eric Bolling singing "The Gasoline Blues" on Fox & Friends, if you can stand it. Some local news reporters are helpfully retransmitting the propaganda: Florid ...

Environmental Graffiti

Being a 'treehugger' isn't just a human thing! As these fantastic images demonstrate, animals hug trees too — and for all sorts of reasons. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Captured in a series of fascinating images, a battle between a spider and a wasp is hard-fought indeed... but who will be the victor? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Most of us would get sweaty palms just looking down from an 88-story tower, but for some daring BASE jumpers the Jin Mao super skyscraper offers the chance to fly... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

BuStEd: I sense Astroturfing in the Occupy! http://the99spring.com/letter.html ~ LEAKED FILEZ! Got a nice tip. Pass it along, its all on the google! A bunch of groups which are mostly dedicated to Democratic electioneering are doing a "99% Spring" campaign soon. This is no secret, but the fil ...

Rise of the Facebook-Killers by Nick Pinto- New York - Village Voice: .... Moglen said, Mark Zuckerberg had harnessed the energy of our social desires to talk us into a swindle. "Everybody needs to get laid," Moglen said. "He turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human per ...

It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...

Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...

Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...

Daily Censored

Saul Landau On September 11, 1973 (28 years before the World Trade Center-Pentagon attack), General Augusto Pinochet, leading a gang of treasonous officers, ordered Chilean air force jets to fire missiles at the Presidential Palace. By the end of the day Pinochet had seized power in a bloody, US ...

Yes, selection year is upon us again, and a few of us thought that we would do a radio show to bring everyone up to speed on all of the things that everyone has kept you in the dark about. Of course, some people are well paid to keep you in the dark, but most [...]

In an article written for Truthout.org, entitled: How North Carolina’s Shock Doctrine Artists Are Resegregating Higher Education, I describe how in 2010, an alliance of conservative republicans took over the North Carolina legislature for the first time in 100 years and are now busy implem ...

with clever Star Wars video at source. For those involved in support of US government-sponsored disinformation and massive crimes that annually kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions of the 99%’s dollars, I invite you to consider the quality of human relationships you wish to work for ...

Steve Strieker in The Answer Sheet confronts ths current state of education from the specific events of his home state: “In Gov. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin, teaching has been relegated from professional status to political fodder.” He then builds to this conclusion: “In Walker’s ...

American troops fighting one of Africa’s most notorious rebel groups are now officially stationed across four African countries, a move that highlights the expansion of Washington’s military presence in the continent.

ACT Against the Suppression of the Occupy Movement! Tuesday, February 28 • Union Square 4 pm-Gather; 5 pm-Rally; 6 pm-March Around the world and in every walk of life, people were heartened by the rise of the Occupy Movement. In NYC and in almost a thousand US cities peo ...

Even a broken radioactive timebomb is right twice a day. Here's Newt: "And, candidly, if Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, doesn't feel like apologizing then we should say good bye and good luck, we don't need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody who doesn't c ...

From MichaelMoore.com 'Why I'm Hunger Striking at UVA' "... in our 'caring community,' hundreds of contract employees may make as little as $7.25/hour ... I have experienced many periods of economic hardship in my life. Growing up, I moved over 30 times – including various stays in homeless she ...

Grist - News

by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...

by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...

by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...

by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...

by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Digg Green

A set of new studies, many of which draw on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveal fascinating details in the emerging picture of how Saturn's moon Titan shifts with the seasons and even throughout the day. The papers, published in the journal Planetary and Space Science in a special issue ...

Enormous bright loops, ripples of doomed galaxies, and jet-like streaks are apparent in the central regions of the Perseus galaxy cluster sown above. The image reveals evidence of the turmoil that has wracked the cluster for hundreds of millions of years. One of the most massive objects in the u ...

Many Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULX), are too far away for astronomers to study, but the relatively close proximity of Andromeda to the Milky Way – around 2.5 million light years – gave an international team of scientists, led by Dr. Matt Middleton, of Durham University, the opportunity to an ...

Invisible Opportunity

By Les Visible It seems certain that something will happen in March, simply because the mouthpieces for the murder machine of the west keep talking about Summer and possibly later on. That always means it will be sooner than expected. One of Israel’s many religious holidays based on mayhem ...

By Les Visible It’s not all bad news but the airwaves of the good, are confined to few minds in a small neighborhood that’s scattered far and wide. We’re surrounded by trepanned and unconscious extras; a cast of thousands, moving en masse but the numbers of awakening souls are ...

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The vaccine-pushing, disease scare-mongering agency known as the CDC has put out a stunning piece of propaganda attacking fresh milk (raw dairy), claiming it is “150 times more dangerous” than pasteurized milk. This is all part of their ...

By Les Visible You mess with Mother nature at your peril. You mess with her representatives at your peril. You turn her into ho’s and bitches and you will get something you never imagined in your darkest nightmare. Your bowels will turn to water and you’ll be in Cellblock 99 where th ...

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...

THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...

In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...

Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...

US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...

Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

It’s no surprise we are big LEGO fans here at Inhabitat – the iconic building blocks can be used to create everything from cameras and furniture to apartments and massive cathedrals. Now the toy maker is making headlines again by investing $500 million into green energy. Denmark-base ...

In a country where the unemployment rate lingers at a lofty 8.3% after the worst economic disaster since the 1930s, it probably isn’t a good idea to whine about how much it costs to fill up the tank of your luxury car. Congressman Allen West (R-FL) recently decided to use his Hummer H3 to ...

Pogue's Posts

ABC's "Nightline" was invited to visit Apple's production lines at Foxconn, giving Americans a chance to see how iPads and iPhones are made in China. A note from a man born in China gave another perspective on jobs in that country.

Apple's Mountain Lion operating system software for the Mac brings even more of the iPhone/iPad features to the Mac. The juiciest payoff here is the suite of Mac apps that now mimic what's on the iPhone/iPad. Through your free iCloud account, all of these apps are synced instantly and smoothly a ...

David Pogue is amazed that people are still amazed at children's tech prowess. It's too bad there's no List of Things That Were Once Amazing, but Are Really Kind of Old News at This Point, he says. It would be a handy clip-and-save document that you could review, perhaps to avoid unwittingly emb ...

Tobii, a Swedish company, is demonstrating eye-tracking software that really rocked my world. Imagine reading a Web page or Word document on the screen and the page scrolls automatically, gracefully and effortlessly as you proceed through the article. The system knows where your eyes are and how ...

Though it might seem impossible, and certainly inadvisable, to judge a person by her name, a new study suggests our brains try anyway. The more pronounceable a person's name is, the more likely people are to favor her.

For more than a century, scientists have excavated fossils from the La Brea tar pits. It's a paleontological treasure chest, a snapshot of the late Pleistocene and Ice Age California. That picture is growing sharper by the day as paleontologists dig into Project 23, a huge cache uncovered almost ...

Scientists have produced the most precise measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson. It will help them search for the elusive Higgs boson, the discovery of which would be an epoch-making event.

Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission for the moon. Decades ago, after NASA’s best and brightest brought back 850 pounds of rocks from their lunar journeys, the U.S. gave them away as "goodwill" gifts to the world’s nations. Then many of them disappeared, stolen or lost in the aftermath of political t ...

PakAlert

Pyramids. Are some alien? Scientists in China and Russia think so. Now, it seems the hidden technology of those ancient structures is being activated as massive pyramids around the globe are shooting pulsing streams of raw energy deep into space. What is their purpose? Are they really conduits o ...

Would you support a war against Iran if you knew that: Iran has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East behind Israel Jews are protected by the Iranian constitution, and are guaranteed seats in the Iranian parliament

Despite public denials, military preparations for intervention in the horrendous Syrian crisis are quietly afoot in Washington, Paris, Rome, London and Ankara. President Barack Obama is poised for a final decision after the Pentagon submits operational plans for protecting Syrian rebels and bele ...

If you thought Monsanto’s lack of testing on their current GMO crops was bad before, prepare to now be blown away by the latest statement by the USDA. Despite links to organ damage and mutated insects, the USDA says that it is changing the rules so that genetically modified seed companies like M ...

Andy Worthington

Last Thursday, February 16, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called “underwear bomber,” received a life sentence in a courtroom in Detroit. Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, had tried and failed to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, receiving serious burns when the bo ...

Greetings from Kuwait, where the weather is fresh and warm, and the people are very friendly. Although I have been studying Guantánamo and the “war on terror” for the last six years, this is my first visit to the Middle East, and I’m here to play whatever part I can to secure t ...

Last month, when I visited the US to campaign for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy flying from city to city and from event to event that I did not have time to take in — and in some cases to cross-post — articles of interest [...]

“‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...

In the whole sordid ten-year history of Guantánamo, one of the most distressing events, which has never been adequately investigated, involves the deaths of three prisoners on the night of June 9, 2006. According to the authorities, the deaths were the result of a coordinated suicide pact, but t ...

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...

Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...

The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...

Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...

So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

An Alaska man who is challenging President Barack Obama’s eligibility for office on the grounds that the president is a “mulatto” based his complaint on an argument common to the neo-Confederate and antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movements, Hatewatch has learned. In a complaint filed Tuesday ...

Apparently, it’s a lot easier to declare victory than to actually win it. At least that’s my takeaway from a comment today from Vanderbilt University law school professor Carol Swain, who I debated, along with two others, this Tuesday at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention in Na ...

In a move that is sure to endear it permanently to America’s nativist extremist demographic, the Outdoor Channel last night featured hate group leader Glenn Spencer on “Border Battles,” a recently debuted reality show about “what it takes to protect our nation’s borders from drug smuggling, ille ...

Anti-immigrant law drafter extraordinaire Kris Kobach continues to play dumb about the racist organization bankrolling his efforts, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and its founder John Tanton. In a piece published by Salon yesterday, Kobach, who is also the Kansas secretar ...

A judge in Georgia has denied bail for William Dustin Gold, a one-time rising star in anti-immigrant circles, following his arrest last week on charges he stabbed a 38-year-old reality TV producer with whom he was working. Producer Marcus Fox had been shooting a commercial with Gold for several ...

change: org.

A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...

In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...

The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...

Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...

Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

A US Postal Service plan announced Thursday to cut nearly 35,000 jobs and close nearly half of its regional processing centers will be disastrous for the US public and will lead to further privatization of the parcel delivery industry, say critics. ...

Reports indicate that Monsanto has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by US residents who say they were poisoned by chemicals used in the manufacturing of the Agent Orange in their town of Nitro, West Virginia. The Guardian reports: ...

Environmental group Friends of the Earth, represented by Earthjustice, sued the State Department yesterday to gain access to communications between the department and lobbyists who pushed for approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The group explains: ...

Afghan citizens took to the streets again on Friday, making it the fourth day of protests following evidence that US officials had burned Korans at the Bagram airfield base outside of Kabul. Deaths were again reported in clashes between outraged Afghans and security forces. The Irish Times ...

Nearly 8 million children in the United States were living in high-poverty areas in 2010—about 1.6 million more than there were just ten years ago—according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charitable organization whose primary mission is to foster public ...

If you know you're going to be moving from a well-lit area to the dark, you can cover one of your eyes—like a pirate with an eye patch—for a few minutes beforehand to see better in the dark. More » ...

Water Privatization

FLETCHER — Residents from around Buncombe and Henderson counties spoke out Thursday against the idea of the state stripping Western North Carolina’s biggest city of its water system in order to regionalize it.

FLETCHER — Residents from around Buncombe and Henderson counties spoke out Thursday against the idea of the state stripping Western North Carolina’s biggest city of its water system in order to regionalize it.

Guardian

It's obviously not for the weather, so what is it about Britain that the obscenely wealthy find so attractive?Here's something you definitely shouldn't do if you're even a tiny bit leftwing and suffer from high blood pressure: look at a document called the Forbes cost of living extremely well in ...

Foreign minister tells conference on Syria that supplying weapons to rebels fighting Assad regime is 'an excellent idea' as Obama vows to use 'every tool available' to stop the slaughterSaudi Arabia has backed the arming of Syria's opposition guerrilla army in remarks that could signal an inter ...

Reporter Nicholas Davies and cameraman Gareth Montgomery-Johnson work for Iranian-owned Press TVTwo British journalists have been arrested in Libya, the Foreign Office confirmed today.Nicholas Davies, a reporter, and cameraman Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who work for Iranian-owned Press TV, are b ...

Long-running suit claimed residents of Nitro, West Virginia were exposed to the carcinogenic Vietnam-era chemical weaponChemicals giant Monsanto has reached a settlement with US residents who claimed they were poisoned by chemicals used in the manufacturing of the Vietnam-era chemical weapon Age ...

Mounting pressure on Rupert Murdoch's News International over allegations of bribes at the Sun and hacking at NoWRupert Murdoch's News International will face fresh questions over allegations of bribes at the Sun and hacking at the now-closed News of the World just one day after the publisher la ...

McClatchey

Afghans took to the streets for a fourth day Friday to protest American mistreatment of the Quran in demonstrations that left at least nine people dead and thousands more expressing…Click to Continue »

When she leaves the executive mansion as Washington state's 22nd governor next January, Democrat Chris Gregoire wants to unwind by taking a month to visit some national parks with her…Click to Continue »

Futurismic

Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...

Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...

My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge. I also [...]Foll ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

On February 3, 2012, two judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the SOX whistleblower claims of Jackie Lawson and Jonathan Zang. The case is Lawson v. FMR, LLC, Case No. 10-2240 (1st Cir. 2012). To justify this dismissal, the two judge majority held that the ...

Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center filed an amicus, or fiend of the court, brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in its case of Wiest v. Lynch, Case No. 11-4257. The main issue is whether the Court should adopt the ARB's broad "reasonable belief" standar ...

In today's editorial, the New York Times expresses concerns about the targeted surveillance of whistleblowers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The editorial recounts the claims made by six scientists and physicians who raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of devices appro ...

Chalk up another top news story to the whistleblowers. Today, federal and state officials announced a $25 billion landmark settlement with the America's five largest mortgage servicers, an agreement that would not be possible without contributions from employees who first exposed the banks' wro ...

Tune in today at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner and Lindsey Williams discuss the updates in the FDA whistleblower illegal surveillance case, including Senator Grassley’s biting letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg dema ...

Science Express

If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...

The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...

Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.

A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

A couple of weeks ago the popular ebook portal Library.nu was shut down, apparently voluntarily, after a coalition of book publishers obtained an injunction against it and a similar site. As an excellent post on the kNOw Future Inc. blog points out, Library.nu was significant in a number of way ...

In 2009, we wrote about a case involving a lawyer named Ed Connor filing a class action lawsuit against the two giant legal aggregators, Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis. His argument was that legal filings, which those two services aggregated into large databases and then sold access to, were covered b ...

With so much focus on Nigerian-based scams, many Nigerian scammers now seek to use middlemen to help with things like bank accounts to keep suspicion levels lower. There are plenty of stories of people in the US, Europe and elsewhere who take "jobs" that involve having a local bank account thro ...

While we've seen pay-what-you-want models work quite well for digital goods, it's still uncertain as to whether the model works for tangible goods where the marginal cost of each sold item does not approach zero. However, that doesn't mean people shouldn't try. A Brazilian company launched a lin ...

As various collection societies have been getting more desperate to collect more and more fees, a favorite move is to focus in on sky high internet "streaming" rates. In the US, webcasting rates are many, many times higher than the royalties that radio has to pay. It's why there still remain m ...

If a relatively uncontroversial vaccine like the rabies vaccine can cause autism, isn’t it just possible that shooting tiny babies and young children full of vaccines—many at the same time when no one has ever conducted a study to prove that it’s safe to do so—could also cause autism?

BroadSnark

I know Chris Hedges has been blowing up the internets lately because of that piece he did on the black bloc. But I’d like to take him to task for something he said back at the beginning of January in this C-Span interview. It comes about 12 minutes into the second hour when he starts talk ...

Holy crap. How have I not put up a TYMHM since January 10th. I seem to have lost a month of my life somewhere along the way. As you must have gathered from the couple posts I have put up, one of the things keeping me busy is the Criminal INjustice Committee of occupy. We [...]

Apologies for falling off the map again. I have just about dug myself out of a hole and should be back on a posting schedule (fingers crossed) next week. In the meantime, one of the things keeping me busy has been the Criminal Injustice Committee of Occupy. Our Wells Fargo boycott website is up ...

Sorry I’ve been missing in action for a bit. Lots going on. I’ll fill you in soon. But if you are in the DC area, come out to Tivoli Square tomorrow for an anti-prison protest. I’ll be there. More info here

Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...

War in Context

Tariq Ali’s emphatic assertion that the Assad family must be pushed out of power — and that the pushing should come from Russia and China — probably didn’t sit too well with the operators of Russia Today. This interview appears to have never been uploaded to their YouTube ...

First we were warned to be suspicious about accounts of a revolution in Syria because the “citizen journalists” telling the story were supposedly either Islamist extremists, or agents of Western interests, or both. Then, as Western journalists with increasing frequency managed to sne ...

Haaretz reports: [Israel's] Defense Minister Ehud Barak strongly criticized President Shimon Peres yesterday, after a Haaretz report revealed that Peres is expected to tell U.S. President Barack Obama that he does not believe Israel should attack Iran in the near future. The two presidents are d ...

Jillian C. York and Trevor Timm write: Yesterday morning, journalist Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London was killed, along with French photographer Rémi Ochlik, in the beseiged city of Homs, Syria, where more than 400 people have been reported dead in recent weeks. Disturbingly, the Teleg ...

Watts Up With That?

Correspondence Began Same Day He Rejected Invitation to Debate FEBRUARY 24, 2012 – The Heartland Institute today released all the emails Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick sent to The Heartland Institute for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining internal Heartland documents. … ...

I remember vividly the panic leading up to year 2000. People were racing to Y2K their computers and systems. TV news crews had reporters stationed at bank machines, at train traffic centers in NYC, at airports, all waiting to see … Continue reading →

Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser of The GWPF Kevin Rudd has declared he will challenge Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard as leader of the Labor party on Monday, saying he wants to “finish the job” he began before she ousted … Continue reading →

Someone, I can’t recall who, sent me a link to this over a week ago before Fakegate exploded. I’ve had it open in my browser since. Published in 1951, it seems prescient as we look at the global warming affair … Continue reading →

Biosingularity

Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]

Faster, longer, further… fatter? Knocking out a particular gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as normal. Knocking out the same gene in fat cells allows the animals to put on weight without developing type-2 diabetes.The discoveries could lead to new treatments for diabetes or for invigora ...

Since 1928, the way breast cancer characteristics are evaluated and categorized has remained largely unchanged. It is done by hand, under a microscope. Pathologists examine the tumors visually and score them according to a scale first developed eight decades ago. These scores help doctors assess ...

The red wine ingredient resveratrol mimicked the metabolic effects of dieting and exercising in obese men, a small study found. Although it didn’t lead to weight loss, a daily 150-milligram dose of resveratrol lowered blood pressure as well as blood glucose levels and liver fat in obese me ...

A team of Russian scientists have resurrected a plant from 30,000-year-old seeds discovered in the Far Eastern permafrost in an unprecedented experiment marking a step towards unveiling the secrets of ancient life on Earth.

Pruning Shears

This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.When writing about violence at Occupy there seems to be a great deal of controversy over what the word itself means, so I&#8 ...

This was published with considerable feedback from several bloggers at Corrente: DCblogger, affinis, lambert and okanogen. My sincere thanks to all of them for their help.The issue of violence at Occupy flared up last week when Chris Hedges used violent rhetoric to make the case for nonviolence ...

Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ge ...

No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. This report (very graphic) on the effects of depleted uranium (DU) is absolutely horrifying. Reports on the effects of DU from other sou ...

Organic Consumers.org

"Shrimp lovers don't need to crash a fancy party to enjoy premium, seasoned-to-perfection shrimp," announced a Taco Bell press release last year. The chain was heralding its "Pacific Shrimp Taco," which featured a half-dozen "premium shrimp" for just $2.79.Click here to read this article

If you can't physically occupy a Cargill facility (see below), here is a quick and easy way to make a big difference just by picking up the phone. If you'd like to go into greater detail beyond the script, check out our new Cargill factsheet.Click here to read this article

In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation's two leading producers of agrochemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the use of the herbicide 2,4-D, one half of the infamous defoliant Agent Orange, which was used by American forces to clear jungle during the Vi ...

It was early February, when the 10-hour day returns here on the 44th parallel, and Barbara Damrosch could see it in the brighter green leaves of her tatsoi and spinach growing in the unheated greenhouse attached to the house she shares with her husband, Eliot Coleman, at Four Season Farm.Click h ...

At a forum of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome today, Microsoft founder Bill Gates pressed the need for genetically modified seeds in the developing world, and the need for a "digital revolution" to meet the needs of the world's farmers. Gates' claims that genet ...

Center for a Livable Future

Since August, the CDC has reported three novel influenza A virus variants (H3N2v, H1N1v, H2N2v) that have infected humans in the U.S., for a total of 14 cases. All three viruses originated in swine herds.

The study measures the density of airborne pollutants in homes close to dairy operations, and the pollutants include ammonia, particulate matter (PM), or dust, and ammonia. Many airborne contaminants are unregulated, and the exposure effects are unknown.

As we all know the picture is not pretty. Numerous spiritual traditions have taught that we must tend and care for the Earth. And while those traditions and practices entirely make sense for the common good, we have for the most part ignored them.

My Care2 Picks

How did scientific speculation so swiftly erupt into ubiquitous intimations of apocalypse? These are not hypothetical questions but historical questions, and they have answers. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Thanks be to the traitors, moles, deceivers and manipulators and all their tools such as the many false flag operations like the 93 world trade center bombing, the underwear bomber and even today with the foiled attack on the U.S. Capitol where there is a Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Worl ...

Most of the genetically-modified (GM) corn products forced on American consumers today are hidden in processed foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn oil, corn starch, and various other corn-based additives. But soon to be available at Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to Heal ...

Lhasa consists of approximately 1.2 million Chinese and approximately 200,000 Tibetans. The majority of these Tibetans live in an area which is now almost entirely enclosed by military compounds with walls between 10-16 feet; some with barbed wire. Submitted by Rex K. to World | &n ...

High-quality salt is actually essential for life,Salt has been vilified as a primary cause of high blood pressure and heart disease. These latter claims have failed to be proven conclusively, as have the purported benefits of a low-salt diet. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness &nbsp ...

Angry Indian News

Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

Food sovereignty activists from around North America will meet at this tiny town on March 2, 2012 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, who has a court hearing that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land him in prison for ...

This new supposedly "humane" CAFO method requires rendering the chickens blind by "removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken" so that "its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

ShareThisSuspicious letters sent to lawmakers and media outlets prompt investigation --Authorities: Mailings have tested negative for harmful substances 23 Feb 2012 Federal authorities said Thursday that they are investigating the existence of at least a dozen suspicious letters with powdery sub ...

ShareThisEx-KBR CEO Stanley Gets 2 1-2 Years in Prison for Foreign Bribes 24 Feb 2012 Albert "Jack" Stanley, the former KBR Inc. chief executive officer, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for bribing Nigerian officials to win $6 billion in natural gas contracts for the company and its partn ...

ShareThisMaryland same-sex marriage bill goes to governor 24 Feb 2012 Gay marriage is all but legal in Maryland after the Legislature gave its final OK Thursday to the law that's being sent to Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), who said he expects to sign it this week. The state Senate voted 25-22 for th ...

ShareThis'Friends of Syria' ready ultimatum for Assad [Is there a 'Friends of America' to ready an ultimatum for the US?] 24 Feb 2012 The United States, European and Arab nations are set deliver a stern warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that he must agree to an immediate cease-fire and al ...

ShareThisNations to call on Syria to agree to cease-fire or face yet-to-be named response 24 Feb 2012 World powers convening Friday in Tunisia are mapping out a plan to deliver humanitarian aid and give political legitimacy to the Syrian opposition overthrow the Syrian government for Exxon Mobil ...

Daily Loaf

I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]

Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States. St ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]

The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...

The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...

Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...

B.C. Preppers Network

A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...

Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...

After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...

Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...

I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

“After more than 9 years of conflict and more than 40 AAR’s recommending the evolution of MEDEVAC to current civilian standards, no institutional change has been made. Continuing the legacy model has resulted and continues to result in documented sub-optimal outcomes and increased deaths among p ...

18 February 2012 General Martin Dempsey is the highest-ranking member of the US military. He directly advises the President. Lieutenant General John Campbell is Chief of Army Operations. A bigwig. Both men have publicly supported keeping Red Crosses on MEDEVAC helicopter ...

17 February 2012 The Army campaign around the MEDEVAC continues to unravel. They’ve tried just about everything short of assassination and witchcraft to freeze the growing stampede. In the beginning, they claimed that my accounts of the failed MEDEVAC were completely wrong. An ...

15 February 2012 The following message was issued behind closed doors by the Department of Army (DA). It pertains to media coverage of the MEDEVAC debacle. There is no foul in monitoring the articles, but the inside glimpse is interesting. TAMPA TRIBUNE COVERS MEDEVAC STORY WITH LO ...

The Killing Train

The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain about those moments is their infrequency. Soldiers and police come from the same society as the crowds. Why do they kill them? Why are elites and authorities able to res ...

[This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...

Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more

The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...

Jurist - Legal Research

[JURIST] The Maryland Senate on Thursday approved the Civil Marriage Protection Act [SB241, PDF], which would legalize same-sex marriage [JURIST backgrounder] in the state. The legislation passed by a 25-22 margin in the Senate, having already been approved by the lower house [JURIST report] ear ...

[JURIST] A Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] detainee reached a plea agreement with military prosecutors on Wednesday that included an agreement to testify against other detainees. Under the agreement, detainee Majid Khan [GlobalSecurity profile], a 31-year-old former Baltimore-area resident, ...

[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] on Thursday ruled [text] that Italy violated international human rights laws when a group of Somalian and Eritrean migrants traveling from Libya were intercepted by Italian authorities and returned to Libya. The court found th ...

[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] on Wednesday was granted permission [decision, PDF; press release] by a pretrial chamber to expand his investigation of war crimes in the Ivory Coast to incidents dating back to ...

[JURIST] The Council of Europe's (COE) [official website] Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Punishment (CPT) published a report [text] Wednesday rejecting the practice of surgical castration [COE press release] as a means of treatment for sexual offenders. In Germa ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

Although it was a signature issue for Sen. Obama during his campaign, President Obama won't get much political capital for following through on his promise. The leitmotif of Sen. Barack Obama's early presidential campaign was the inherent wrongness of the war in Iraq and how it represente ...

The drone that Iran claims to have shot down was a stealth RQ-170 "Sentinel" The RQ-170 "Sentinel," a stealth unmanned U.S. drone / Wikimedia Commons The super-secret drone that Iran claims to have recovered was on a CIA "Focal Point" mission, gathering intelligence and likely crash ...

A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...

Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...

With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...

Tikun Olam

Settler Extremists Provoke Violence, Threaten Muslim Sovereignty Over Temple Mount, Seeking Final Day of Reckoning Israeli settler leaders are provoking violence on the Temple Mount in order to bring forward the final day of reckoning that will enable them to evict Muslims from the area and re ...

“I’m against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections,” he shrugs. “But as long as it’s doable I’m going to do it. Because I know that guys like Soros have been doing it for years, if not decades. –Sheldon Adelson, Forbes Sheldon Adelson’s interview in the upcomin ...

Israeli Iran attack? What goes around comes around. Be forewarned, Israel and the US. We are entering a dangerous stage in which Iran feels it must respond in kind to attacks against it. When two nations engage in patterns of attacks and counterattacks, it's much easier for a mistake or misjud ...

Over the past week or so there have been some strange doings on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. As the lyrics of the old song go: There’s something happnin’ here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I’ve go to beware It appe ...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can do a “number” on intellectuals. It can whipsaw them from left to right and back again. Benny Morris is an example of an intellectual who was mugged by the disturbing realities of the conflict during the Intifada, and who lost any hope that the P ...

If Americans Knew

We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...

NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...

Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...

In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

David J. Gregory

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...

http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...

As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...

Unsuitable Blog

The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...

Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...

On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...

There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...

It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...

Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...

One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

This piece was co-written with Eric King, human rights and technology adviser at Privacy International, and comes as Privacy International launches a new data release about companies selling surveillance technologies. Today, the global surveillance industry is estimated at around $5 billion a ...

CongressionalPrimaries.org, the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, went live officially this week. The site demonstrates several technologies that enhance coverage of this year's congressional primary elections in Illinois -- while also providing components that pub ...

We're excited to, for the first time, put PANDA into users' hands! After roughly six months of development, we are releasing our first beta version. This release implements nearly all of our "must have" features. We've written several times (1, 2, 3) about specific parts of PANDA in developme ...

One spark and it happens: An individual or a team of people create a deployment using Ushahidi or Crowdmap. Their motivation and the inspiration are telling tales. These citizens, diaspora and a global community collaborate near and far to make change happen. Motivated often by the simple act of ...

The people have a right to know, but sometimes they're a bit too busy to find out for themselves. Informed citizens have both the need and the desire to know about public affairs, whether public or of a more private nature. For as long as there has been democracy, there's also been a free pr ...

Cutting Edge News

Treating people infected with the AIDS virus involves using a combination of antiretroviral drugs. But some combinations work better than others. Now, a mathematical formula has been developed that may eventually help doctors decide which drugs to use. Prescribing a cocktail of drugs has become ...

As the U.S. electoral process grinds on and the Republican primary debates fold into state primaries and caucuses, the candidates’ views on national security and foreign policy are being carefully scrutinized by voters who consider them to be crucial components of the total policy package a cand ...

William Faulkner famously wrote that “the past is never dead; it’s not even past.” He was right. The past is not dead. It is alive and well and will be present in force at the Academy Awards next Sunday. A history film seems certain to win Best Picture. The big favorite is The Artist, the unique ...

India's economy is growing at a blistering pace, and while that is increasing welfare for millions, it's also raising some alarming public health red flags. Respiratory pediatrician S.K. Kabra has busy Saturdays. His outpatient waiting area at this New Delhi hospital teems with parents whose chi ...

A coalition of Internet companies, including U.S.-based Google, has agreed to support a "do-not-track" button being installed in Web browsers to help protect the privacy of computer users around the world. For more than a year, the Internet browser companies had resisted embedding the button. Bu ...

CounterCurrents

By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya

By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...

By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...

By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?

Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...

Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...

A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

The song may say you only hurt the one you love, but in politics you hurt the one who gives you nightmares and Marco Rubio makes democrats wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming at the top of their progressive lungs. Anybody who articulates conservatism as well ...

By Barry Rubin Registering to run for president of Egypt will begin March 10. The military moved it up from April 15 to show that it is handing over power to the civilians. As I’ve said before, I’ve never seen any evidence that the army is not going to turn over control of the country to a ...

If the electability is a key component in deciding your vote for the GOP Presidential nomination,this latest Gallup poll has your answer---it shouldn't be. The latest Gallup poll took a look at the match ups between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and between Obama and Rick Santorum. The poll ...

Last night was the 1,987,254th GOP debate during this primary season (or was it the 1,987,245th?). It featured the final three candidates, Ron Paul, and representing the Obama administration, CNN's John King. OK--- the truth is there have been only 20 debates and Ron Paul is a candidate ...

This news item is for the people who believe the Iranian nuclear program is designed for peaceful means. People who honestly believe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad goal in life is to sit around a campfire with the President of the United States and the Prime ...

The Real Agenda

Most of the oil that began to flow into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico did not come from Leaks 1 and 2, but from a third Well that BP hid from the public record. The 3rd Well, research shows, could have been blown out by an explosive detonation. by Luis R. Miranda The [...]

Agence France Presse February 24, 2012 The World Bankwas on Friday to propose a coalition of governments, global organisations and other groups to protect the oceans, aiming to raise $1.5 billion in the next five years for the purpose. World Bank president Robert Zoellick was to tell a global co ...

by Mike Adams Natural News February 24, 2012 The vaccine-pushing, disease scare-mongering agency known as the CDC has put out a stunning piece of propaganda attacking fresh milk (raw dairy), claiming it is “150 times more dangerous” than pasteurized milk. This is all part of their an ...

Wind Watch

Bald eagles won an unexpected victory Thursday when Minnesota regulators delayed a wind farm near Red Wing for at least a year because the developer failed to produce an adequate plan to protect America’s national symbol and other flying creatures. Local residents who have been fighting th ...

A plan to build eight power-generating wind turbines on bogs in Wareham was whittled to two smaller wind machines over the past 16 months due to opposition from neighbors, but apparently those concessions still weren’t enough. In the latest example of how alternative-energy projects are meeting ...

HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s songbird is choosing fight over flight in her lengthy battle against a wind farm near her summer home. Anne Murray has written a letter to Premier Darrell Dexter, saying the proposed development is “deeply disturbing” and has no place in Pugwash, N ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Two key state lawmakers said Tuesday that Vermont won’t meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2017, and they’re withdrawing their support for setting a new goal of 30 percent renewable power by 2025. Reps. Tony Klein and Ma ...

New South Wales’ three working Government-approved wind farms are to be audited, with residents claiming they make too much noise. NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard says the decision to audit the three southern NSW farms follows ongoing complaints from local residents. The three facilitie ...

Tippers News

Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...

The Freeman

“The number of families living on $2 or less per person per day for at least a month in the USA has more than doubled in 15 years to 1.46 million.” (USA Today) Politicians love the poor — they have made so many of them. FEE Timely Classic “Scratching By: How Government Cr ...

“The White House today unveiled a ‘Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights’ intended to serve as a guideline for new legislation to protect people’s online privacy. The Privacy Bill of Rights outlines what types of information Internet companies may collect, how that information may be used, ways ...

The blog WhyQuit.com asks: “How should your family describe your cause of death? Was it suicide, murder, an accident or stupidity?” Playing Russian roulette, engaging in extreme sports, taking large doses of soporific drugs, and many other activities fit each of these options. When do we blame s ...

In the Raleigh News and Observer last fall, David McAdams, associate professor of economics at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, claimed—contrary to even Keynesian economics—that President Obama’s proposed tax on millionaires would create jobs. The so-called Buffett rule, named after b ...

Teaching Online Journalism

I’ve been working on this for a few days. Trying to make it as simple as possible. Digital systems that enable people, identified by profiles, to share information. Now, please let me unpack that a little bit: Digital systems is another way to say media. I specify digital because I do not ...

I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a cu ...

I have been collecting posts, articles, tutorials and general how-to materials that relate to how journalists use social media. I started about two weeks ago, as I prepare for a workshop in Singapore. They are curated here: Social Media and Journalists. The collection is housed at Scoop.it, a ...

I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

I think it’s very cool that 1,126 people visited this blog yesterday. The number of retweets on the link to my post about social media tools for journalists really drove the traffic. What’s even more encouraging is that a lot of links in my post were clicked. That’s wonderful, ...

Telegraph UK - oil

A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country's state oil company.

Whether the September 11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they received support from a network of co-conspirators in the United States, remains one of the unanswered questions of the world's most devastating terrorist attack.

Ian Welsh

is not, in fact, pressimism. It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd. We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes. We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...

is not, in fact, pressimism. It is realism. I find the “be happy” crowd odd. We have, in the past few years, seen millions of Americans and Europeans impoverished and lose their homes. We are seeing a wave of austerity in the 1st world which has and will impoverish many millions m ...

Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual? Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...

Why is Francis Fukuyama considered an intellectual? Why is he considered an intellectual worth of praise, his opinion important? I ask this not because I don’t know the answer, I do, and I’ll get to it, but because so many people seem to believe he is an intellectual. Let me quote F ...

Ok, for some time, folks have been after me for a formal economics post. What’s going to happen in the future in the US? The answer, for around the next 5 to 6 years, maybe longer, is the musical chairs economy. Let’s lay out the basics. Oil and Gasoline consumption in the US has b ...

Reality Asserts Itself

My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...

A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...

I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...

Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...

Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...

Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...

A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...

More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...

Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

Local economic developers and policy pundits often point to scientific and research jobs as an important part of regional economies and a critical driver of innovation for the nation's economy. As we continue to filter through the data in our latest release (built on nearly 90 federal and stat ...

This piece is an except from a new report on the Great Lakes Region for the Sagamore Institue. Download the pdf version for the full report including charts and maps on the region. The American Great Lakes region has long been a region defined by the forces of production, both agricultural a ...

Moscow is bursting at the seams. The core city covers more than 420 square miles (1,090 kilometers), and has a population of approximately 11.5 million people. With 27,300 residents per square mile (10,500 per square kilometer), Moscow is one percent more dense than the city of New York, thou ...

Since the early 20th century, the almost universal adoption of the automobile by US residents has had a profound impact on how we plan and design communities. The widespread use of the auto not only spurred development outside of traditional urban centers, it minimized the need to blend mult ...

In a mere forty years Orléans has gone from an overwhelmingly French-speaking village to a suburb of Ottawa where scarcely one-third of the population has French as its mother tongue. Nonetheless, the French presence remains vibrant and local francophones are exceptionally dedicated to pre ...

GM Watch

Wanted: scientific integrity on GMOs Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Ground Truth, 23 February 2012 http://www.panna.org/blog/wanted-scientific-integrity-gmos As reported in this week's UK Guardian, Nina Federoff spoke about threats to science at a meeting of 8,000 professional scientists. The former Bush ...

EXTRACTS: [MP George Freeman said] ...with developing nations such as the USA, China, Brazil and Argentina rapidly investing in the sector... it would be "madness" for Britain to be left behind. MEP Stuart Agnew... said, "Ten years ago, only a few farmers were brave enough to trial GM sugar be ...

EXTRACT: If there was one thing we didn't really need, it was to make it easier for big chemical companies to ram through inadequately tested agricultural products that encourage the rampant use of pesticides. But that's what we're getting. --- --- Obama administration wants to make (GMO) life e ...

NOTE: In an interview with the journal Science, India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, claims foreign influence lies behind Indian opposition to nuclear power and GM crops. We were sent this response by Vandana Shiva, the scientist and renowned activist who founded Navdanya, a network of seed k ...

Cryptogon

Not The Onion: Check. Not April 1: Check. Via: Reuters: Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer. A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institu ...

Good idea. Via: Stuff: Hollywood movie mogul James Cameron is coming to live in Wairarapa – and he is bringing his family with him. The director of blockbuster films Titanic and Avatar has purchased two large plots of land along Western Lake Rd in south Wairarapa, where he is expected to a ...

Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Frequent travelers who use San Francisco International Airport once again will be able to get through security a little faster with the return of a fee-based pre-screening program approved by the Airport Commission Tuesday. The CLEAR program, operated by a private c ...

Via: Technology Review: Software mines security footage to help business owners see what people do once they’re inside the store. The huge success of online shopping and advertising—led by giants like Amazon and Google—is in no small part thanks to software that logs when you visit Web pag ...

Via: PLoS Biology: How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus to determine what acoustic information in speech ...

The Economic Collapse

How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long. The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...

The global financial system is not a game of checkers. It is a game of chess. All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default. Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...

The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is. The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming. Most of us recognize that the character ...

Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month? If it does, you are certainly not alone. There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat. In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...

Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family. Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore. Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...

Desertification

New York, Feb 23 2012 6:05PM The United Nations food relief agency <”http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/world-food-programme-and-feeding-america-partner-hunger-games“> announced today its partnership with the producers of the upcoming film The Hunger Games

Read at : http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/24382 Refugee starvation could trigger new war over Western Sahara says Minister Written by Peter Kenworthy on February 23, 2012. ………………….. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has given basic ass ...

Read at : http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/24382 Refugee starvation could trigger new war over Western Sahara says Minister Written by Peter Kenworthy on February 23, 2012. ………………….. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has given basic ass ...

The Paper Trail

They say it takes money to make money. And supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential bid have shelled out more than $20,000 to hold fundraising events for their super PAC at some pretty luxurious spots, according to an iWatch News analysis of campaign finance reports fil ...

New York City police data released this month shows that officers arrested about five students per day last fall, and ticketed about nine. That’s excessive, and a sign that too many students, especially ethnic minority males, are getting pulled into the criminal justice system, civil rights grou ...

Is the Obama administration correct when it claims its contraception mandate will be “cost neutral” for insurance companies? Or are the critics right when they say Catholic institutions will pay a hidden cost in the form of higher premiums when their insurers are required to give “free” contrace ...

A new study finds that nearly 400 House staffers have moved from Capitol Hill to K Street in recent years, suggesting that recent efforts to curb the revolving door between lawmaking and lobbying are having limited effect.At least 378 of the 5,710 staffers working on the House side of the Hill ...

A super PAC supporting Mitt Romney has paid one of the Republican candidate’s veteran fundraisers a fee of $1.9 million for his work during a period when the super PAC raised about $24 million, according to new FEC filings.The fee went to Podium Capital Group — a company that the super PAC’s tre ...

backofthebook.ca

It would appear that the bush-leaguers at SUN TV are once again abusing their guests. In the wake of some forgettable broadcaster’s pummelling of Margie Gillis, Michael Coren has now taken the opportunity of an interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ostensibly about his new book Kosher Jesu ...

By Alison@Creekside So remember how the Cons withdrew their just-tabled internet surveillance bill, the Lawful Access Act, on Feb 14 and replaced it an hour and 15 minutes later with the identical but renamed Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act , a bill which mentions neither childre ...

A message from backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher: Astute readers of backofthebook.ca will have noticed that our metabolism has slowed of late — we’ve been posting less often. This follows a deleriously busy spring and fall, when our traffic skyrocketed (especially for our pieces on ...

Continued from page 3 The end, when it came, was not pretty. Union bargainer Dave Coles met behind closed doors in June 2000 with senior company executives and came back with two offers from the employer that might have been drafted in Hades. The first involved continuing to bargain until all th ...

Continued from page 2 Local television and radio reporters gave the lockout plenty of coverage. So did the rival Calgary Sun, which distributed an edition of the paper wrapped in what appeared to be a Herald front page. “I always pray for opportunity,” said Sun publisher Les Pyette. The Herald o ...

TerraSelvaggia is an Italian eco-anarchist paper, which made this interview with Russian Campaign to Defend Khimki Hostages last September. Paper issue came up some time ago after the usual delays, so now it is time for online publication. Keep in mind, tha ...

4cc660ba44ed937e0e3ef6f83991.jpg 22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed the Rustenburg mine of Impala Platinum, the biggest producer of pla ...

Free Range International

I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write. That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]

Editors Note: B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch. At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...

This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program. The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B. Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well. As I deal with agen ...

Editors Note: This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...

During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home. The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines. EFP’s were a big prob ...

The Story Behind the Story

This BBC documentary on the USS Liberty attack BY EDOMITE ISRAEL in 1967 is incredible. It is a must-watch, for if ever there was a “high crime” of treason against America – this was it!!!!! As you watch this video, take note. This was not an American-made documentary. As ...

I have had a number of “informants” (worker’s at Utah’s Hill AFB) tell me “off the record” that the USAF have deployed large “saucer” craft rigged with invisibility RFR “cloaks” since the late 90′s. They supposedly are based in ...

This is BEYOND BIZARRE! It’s beyond the old adage: “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black!” It’s the LDS (Mormon) Church counseling people about how to identify a CON!! Check this story out: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53514946-79/fraud-church-utah-lds.html.csp Mich ...

This video is AMAZING – it sums things up pretty well. First, it shows why Judge Napolitano was fired from Edomite Ruppert Murdoch’s FOX NEWS! But this video is even more stunning in what it shows at the 7:15 mark! It shows a clip from the BRITISH BROADCASTING coverage on Septembe ...

This youtube video generated well over 2 million hits. Why? Because it sums up quite nicely the FRUSTRATIONS of the helpless GOY. (Goy = the Human Cattle of the Edomite Overlords.) So, why do I call him and millions of “middle” Americans just like him “lunatic’? Th ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...

Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Scotts Contracting

Fixing Deck Rails on Porches, Decks, etc One of my latest repair projects: The 2nd Floor deck support rail was leaning away from the building creating a Safety Issue for anyone who leaned on the Support Rail. I used a Ratcheting Tie Down Strap to pull the deck support rail straight. (In the fol ...

If you have ever wanted to super insulate your home or business against the cold and heat and protect the bank account from the rising costs of our Electricity Rates – Ameren UE and New Gas Rate Hikes – Laclede Gas. The following offer I received from a couple of my Spray Insulation ...

Rock Foundation Repair Suggestions for Water Proofing a Stone Foundation Always Inspect for Mold Growth on the Foundation Wall Close Up View of Mold Growth After Treatment See Photo Below Find the Bad Spots Gently Remove any loose materials. Paying close attention to leave any Structural Rocks i ...

Midwest has experienced rising average temperatures with the largest warming seen in the winter months. The growing season has been extended by one week because of earlier last spring frosts and precipitation has become more frequent including increased instances of heavy downpours. Since the 19 ...

Scotty-Scotts Contracting, St Louis Renewable Energy has just finished the New Web Site http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com, in partnership with the New Google Small Business Promotion. If you’re looking for high quality and personal service, you’ve come to the right place. At Scotts Contracting w ...

Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...

Iranian.com

The Israeli officials also objected to a number of briefings senior American officials gave American correspondents, who wrote in recent weeks about a possible Israeli attack in Iran. The story that angered Netanyahu most was an NBC broadcast two weeks ago saying Israel would attack Iran's nuc ...

Piece by piece, the tools for an alleged Iranian-directed murder team were smuggled into Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea. A sniper rifle with silencer. Pistols. Sixteen pieces of plastic explosives and detonators. Finally came a dossier with photos, names and exacting details – down to workplace d ...

Most Revolutionary Act

Henry Ford in his hemp plantation (This is the second of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill, sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) The Decline of Hemp Hemp first began losing ground in 1850 to cheaper substitutes made of cotton, ...

How to distinguish industrial hemp (the first plant) (This is the first of three posts about the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Bill sponsored by Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.) For nearly four decades, industrial hemp advocates have extolled the virtues of hemp ...

US troops land in Israel for Austere Challenge 12 What do Austere Challenge 12, Theater Iran Near Term, Global Strike 2003, Vigilant Shield 07, and Concept Plan 8022 all have in common? They are all names of Pentagon war games simulating an attack on Iran. Most military war games are conducted i ...

(This is the second of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking aren’t unarmed protestors. Th ...

The body of Brig Gen Dr Issa al-Kholi (This is the first of two blogs about the covert US war against Syria. The case Obama is making for sanctions and “humanitarian” intervention in Syria is a total fabrication. The US goal in Syria is regime change. The people Assad is attacking ar ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

Thank you for your feedback on our new rules for Academy Award voting and eligibility. We are pleased so many of you have welcomed these changes. Some of you, though, still have some questions. Due to some stories in the media that did not explain the new rules correctly or fully, there is a li ...

RNs to be joined by Occupy, Global Community Reps, Union Activists to Stop Demise; Speculation Tax is Starting Point to Address Economies in Demise, say Nurses and Allies Nurses from across the U.S., joined by union, healthcare, Occupy Wall Street and other community activists, as well as ...

Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I knew nothing about making a movie, and I wish I could tell you some cool story about how I started shooting films when I was six on my dad's 8mm Bell & Howell, or that I went to NYU film school with Spike Lee, and th ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Goodner, 515.991.6357, david.a.goodner@gmail.com Occupy Des Moines trainer sentenced to 30 days in jail 6 people sentenced to time in jail after arrests at state capitol last night Des Moines, Iowa -- Frank Cordaro - a former Catholic priest and a longti ...

Salon

At the Republican debate Wednesday night, Rick Santorum repeated a claim he's been making, that the federal government, and the state governments, should "get out of the education business." Last weekend, Santorum declared public education "anachronistic." If elected, he would home-school his ch ...

When the state of Arizona enacted a draconian anti-immigrant law -- which gave the police wide powers to detain individuals they believed to be undocumented immigrants -- nearly two years ago, the national media took notice. Activists campaigned against the law and tried to shame the state into ...

Republican Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell agrees that the state should not compel a woman seeking abortion to take a probe up her vagina. Polls show that even Republican women flee the specter of Rick (no amnio) Santorum, opening a gap in his improbable march to the nomination. And these are consid ...

If you would seek proof of that famous Margaret Mead adage: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” look at what’s happening as more and more people protest Apple Inc.’s labor practices in China.Take it o ...

TEHRAN, Iran — As Iran’s isolation grows more pronounced week after week, so does, it seems, a sense of nationalism among its citizens.Long famous for such tendencies, Iranians are once again asserting their love of what they call "Vatan," or Homeland, as both real and perceived threats from abr ...

\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...

For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...

For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Russia’s strongman, Vladimir Putin, shouldn’t have to play the nationalist card so close to the March 4 presidential election. With just nine days to go he’s polling nearly 60 per cent support, a commanding 40 points ahead of his nearest rival. T ...

Energy Collective

Vermont leaders finally backed away from renewable energy goals, as have Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, etc. The main reason is the lack of federal subsidies for the huge capital outlays required to obtain just a little of variable, intermittent, high-cost energy (3-5 times NE annual aver ...

Wind power is being squeezed on two fronts. Natural gas prices remain low, limiting the financial incentive to install wind capacity. Meanwhile, the Chinese government continues limit the supply of rare earth elements (REE), and the magnets required for wind turbines use sizable quantities of tw ...

The external release of documents relating to the activities of the Heartland Institute has raised many questions, but an important issue that is now in the open again relates to the teaching of climate change in schools. How should this be handled and what should be taught? Is there justificati ...

EU Times

European Commission has predicted that the eurozone currency bloc faces a deeper recession than previously anticipated, with a 0.3 percent contraction in its GDP now tipped for 2012. The commission previous forecast in November said the economic output in the 17 nations sharing the euro would gr ...

Here in Argentina, when we watch the terrible things that are happening today in Greece, we can only exclaim, “Hey!! That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002…!” ­A decade ago, Argentina too went through a systemic Sovereign Public Debt collapse resulting in social turmoil, work ...

Israeli President Shimon Peres has reportedly called on Israeli officials to halt their recently intensified war rhetoric against Iran, describing such anti-Iran remarks as unnecessary warmongering. Peres told the Israeli officials that there is no point in the “unceasing self-intimidation ...

Syrian frontier guards are battling militants who have infiltrated from Turkey, as the army deploys troops to quash hostile forces trapped in the mountains. The clashes highlight claims outside forces are actively fueling the conflict in Syria. ­North to the Syrian city of Aleppo (340 kilometers ...

A top Iranian oil industry official has said some European states have started negotiations with Tehran in order to purchase Iran’s crude oil. “Only European companies with a 2- to 5-year contract with Iran can purchase the country’s crude, otherwise [Tehran's] relations with those companies wil ...

Stonecipher News

Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...

There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...

Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...

Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...

Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

Google is selling its stake in Clearwire, amounting to 29.4 million shares of ClassA common stock, at $1.60 per share. The sale ends one Google experiment aimed at spurring broadband deployment, much as Google has experimented with municipal Wi-Fi networks, is testing a 1-Gbps local access net ...

The Utah House has passed a bill banning any mention of contraception in sex education classes. If a school does offer sex ed, it has to be abstinence only. The state House passed HB 363 in a 45-28 vote following extensive debate. The bill -- which now goes on to the state Senate -- would lift ...

AUSTIN _ Texas football coach Mack Brown said he will spend significant time developing both quarterbacks during spring drills, which began Thursday, with plans to have both David Ash and Case McCoy capable of being used on an interchangeable basis next fall. Ash, who will be a sophomore, took ...

DAMIAN GRASS – Entertainment Reporter MIAMI BEACH (CT) _ Chris Brown may have surprised many for snatching a Grammy Award recently, but now it looks like he could find himself in trouble with the law again for taking someone’s phone. The controversial R&B singer, who was sentenced to five y ...

On a rare night out in LA, Victoria Beckham attended the Vanity Fair and Chrysler Celebration of The Eva Longoria Foundation which was host by the ‘Desperate Housewives’ star. Victoria was of course decked out in her own threads. She wore a blue Fall 2012 dress with a maroon collar and cuffs wi ...

Groklaw

Well, here's a slap in the face for fans of Microsoft's nascent mobile line: it sells less units per quarter than Samsung's Bada platform, according to Gartner. What's that? You've never heard of Bada? That's the point, friend, it's essentially invisible from a technology standpoint, while Wind ...

So here's a call to participation for all the artistic people out there: can you create three beautiful icons that look like they belong in the Plasma Active panel and communicate the concepts of Share, Like and Connect? On IRC, Stecchino pointed me to this example of the apparently(?) universa ...

The Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals of the 11th Circuit ruled that "the Fifth Amendment protects [the man's] refusal to decrypt and produce the contents of the media devices," which the government believes contain [redacted]ography. - WSJ

The Asian firm trying to stop Apple Inc from using the iPad name in China has launched an attack on the consumer electronics giant's home turf, filing a lawsuit in California that accuses the iPhone-maker of employing deception when it bought the "iPad" trademark. - Reuters

Photo: Next up was the USB 2.0-connected ioSafe Solo External, containing a standard 1TB Seagate hard drive. The clever enclosure ensures that there's sufficient airflow in normal conditions to keep the drive within operating limits, and can self-seal to withstand a temperature of 1,150 degrees ...

Politics in the Zeros

inhabitat.comCongress failed to renew wind power tax credits last Thursday. The effects on the fast-growing wind energy industry are expected to be devastating, including major layoffs and delayed or cancelled projects. The current income tax credit of 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour of wind power ...

Wikimedia commonsA breakthrough by CoolPlanet Biofuels claims that an advanced bioenergy crop, giant Miscanthus, allows them to create upwards of 4,000 gallons of cellulosic gasoline per acre, about 12-times better than corn ethanol. That means more fuel from less land.

Radical Glasgow blogIt would appear that the Scottish Defence League (SDL) intend to hold a “static” demonstration somewhere in the centre of Glasgow on Saturday February 25. It is up to the Glasgow citizens to turn up in their hundreds and show their disgust and hatred of this fasci ...

Pete Saunders at Urbanophile details why, among all US cities, Detroit fell so fast and so hard.Detroit was unique in putting all its eggs in the corporate caretaker basket. Once the auto industry became established in Detroit, political and business leaders abdicated their responsibility on sou ...

Just World News

The countdown clock is now ticking fast, toward the publication of Miko Peled's amazing and powerful memoir, The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The book traces Miko's journey from being born, in 1961, into a family that was part of the core of the Jewish-Israeli elite to, now ...

The conference was an outstanding success! Everyone involved in organizing it-- and most of us who spoke at it-- have all been extremely busy; so I'm really sorry that we don't have much more, and richer, reporting on the events out already. But expect more great reporting of the conference to c ...

... is Just World Books's new webstore, which gives us global reach for distributing books from, as of now, three different print/distribute hubs... I am really excited about this development. I've been trying for a while to figure out a way to escape Amazon's large and greedy clutch, and I thi ...

It is almost amusing to see the lengths to which the pro-Israeli discourse suppressors here in the United States have been going to try to rebuild the long-crumbled "Bar-Lev Line" with which, over decades past, they sought to protect Israel from being the subject of any free, fair, and fact-base ...

Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...

frogblog

The Overseas Investment Office’s habit of rubber stamping applications to buy New Zealand land finally met a brick wall with the recent High Court decision regarding the Crafar farms. The Crafar Farms went bust a few years ago and are now being sold by receivers Korda Mentha on behalf of Austral ...

I was interested to hear a new community group is challenging Peter Dunne to use his crucial vote to halt the unpopular state asset sales. Do you think it’s a Dunne deal or will Dunne back-down to keep our assets?

Various alternate routes to Milford Sound have been proposed over the years to solve the perceived problem of travel time to, and congestion at Milford Sound. They include the train tunnel, the highway from Haast and the gondola. Two new proposals now seek concessions from the Department of Cons ...

Lucy Lawless, the ‘warrior princess’ and Greenpeace activists have boarded a drilling rig in Taranaki to stop it sailing to the Arctic to commence an exploratory oil drilling programme. What do you think?

J Kozy

Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the ...

Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved. But there's a deep problem with the notion that education should equal vocational training. To paraphrase a very famous and renowned pers ...

For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...

The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...

The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

By Dr. Mercola Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and "disabling".i Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type of pain according to the American Pain ...

By Dr. Mercola Cell phones have been used widely for only about a decade, and unfortunately their use became commonplace before their true health effects were revealed. As a result, we are only now beginning to see the potential repercussions, which include a number of potential health conce ...

By Dr. Mercola Did you know there are two types of vitamin D, and they are NOT interchangeable? In fact, taking the wrong one could do you more harm than good... Drisdol is a synthetic form of vitamin D2—made by irradiating fungus and plant matter—and is the form of vitamin D typically pres ...

By Dr. Mercola In the United States, virtually everyone has seen the "pink ribbon" campaigns plastered on everything from make-up and cupcakes to t-shirts and fried chicken buckets, and recognize the symbol as a sign of breast cancer awareness. It's certainly a noble cause, considering that ...

By Dr. Mercola Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are a complex group of compounds formed when sugar reacts with amino acids. This can occur both in the food you eat, and inside your body. It's is a fitting acronym because – along with oxidation – it's one of the major molecular mecha ...

Montreal Gazette

If this new round of student unrest in Quebec over rising tuition looks like a rerun of a familiar movie, that's because it is. We've seen this script, these street demonstrations, before. But repeated viewing sparks a revelation - how this shouldn't be seen as an issue of pure principle anymore ...

When The Gazette first published stories in late 2010 about patients making cash payments to doctors to get fast-track access to health care in the public sector, Quebec Health Minister Dr. Yves Bolduc said he had never heard of such bribery practices in his 26 years in practice.

As a Gazette report last Saturday on the Montreal condo market demonstrated, Quebec's 43-yearold laws governing the building and sale of condos are in urgent need of being updated. Buyer protections need to be improved.

Our montrealgazette.com poll attracted 2,236 votes. Results are posted below. We invited readers to post comments as well, and offered prizes for the best ones. The top prize, a signed cartoon by The Gazette's Aislin showing Queen Elizabeth II with U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, went to Craig M ...

Food World Order

from themedialine.org: Syria’s turmoil is showing signs of reaching the country’s kitchens as disruptions in transportation and trade sanctions are conspiring to shrink supplies and boost prices at a time when harvests are constrained by poor weather. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Orga ...

On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week's menu features Arctic flowers, brand battles, inhalant amusements and more... Episode010: MP3/Feed\Arc ...

'The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table' from nytimes.com: One of the first things to like about Tracie McMillan, the author of “The American Way of Eating,” is her forthrightness. She’s a blue-collar girl who grew up eating a lot of ...

Trademarks Take On New Importance in Internet Era from nytimes.com: As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business. In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing ...

CrusadeWatch

source: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...

source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...

source: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...

source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad

Whole Truth Coalition

COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...

“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...

COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long. The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...

The global financial system is not a game of checkers. It is a game of chess. All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default. Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...

The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is. The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming. Most of us recognize that the character ...

Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month? If it does, you are certainly not alone. There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat. In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...

Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family. Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore. Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...

Compare and contrast... In Britain, when a newspaper vendor dies on the streets, we all go back to mindless drivel such as X Factor... In Spain, when police get aggressive with demonstrating students, the whole country seems to make it's feelings known. The clip above - from this evenin ...

Not yet fully corroborated through photo or video, but claims are circulating widely on social media that riot police in Valencia, Spain have just deployed chemical weapons against student protesters. We're updating as we get more detail, but we've been told on social media that many students ...

Another Sunday passes then in which tens upon tens of thousands of people peacefully assembled and demonstrated in Syntagma Square, Athens. Not broadcast on British TV news screens, of course, Hellenic people were joined in solidarity again by thousands of viewers on the internet who witnesse ...

Another huge turnout expected in Syntagma Square today as Greece - or the Hellenic people anyway - continue to struggle for their dignity and democracy against the foes of the EU/ECB/IMF... and their own government. Courtesy of StopCartelTV - incredible heroes - here is LIVE bilingual coverag ...

CenterLine

Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →

Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →

In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →

In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →

In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Tech Drive In

CyanogenMod 9 (CM9) is gearing up for its next major release which is supposed to bring the goodness of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to one of the most popular ROMs out there. Following is the new boot animation for upcoming CM9 and it looks fabulous. Reworked ...

I had a less than ideal experience with Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2. But two recent updates have resolved almost all the issues I had with Ubuntu 12.04. A lot of new features and minor UI improvements keeps on coming in. Let's make of list of them all, shall we? So here is a quick roundup of everythi ...

KeepScreen for Android is an incredibly useful application. KeepScreen gives you the ability to block screen timeout when predefined applications are active. It may sound simple to you, but from the perspective of a pretty heavy Android user, I would say this makes the app a serious must- ...

VLC 2.0 has just released with PPA support for Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04. VLC 2.0, codenamed "Twoflower", comes with a rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU. VLC 2.0 can be downloaded and installed from official Videolan stable daily PPA. Here is ho ...

Back in the day, downloading YouTube videos (and anything that run on Flash) was simple as anything (at least in Ubuntu). It is not so anymore. But there is this really useful script to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu running Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera without much trouble and in a deep ...

Case About Bird Flu

As the media in Sweden discusses the damage done by the mass swine flu vaccine campaign in 2009, it is worth remembering that Greece was the first country to annouce mandatory swine flu jabs for all 12 million citizens . “We decided that the entire population, all citizens and residents, w ...

Thirty-three cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Skåne in Sweden after Sweden’s massive vaccination campaign against swine flu in 2009. http://www.thelocal.se/39192/20120219/ Swedish doctor Steffan Sylvan said that themass swine flu vaccine campaign had led only to side effects, call ...

Cancer is one the most deadly diseases, and yet a simple cure for cancer identified by Italian doctor Tulio Simoncini has been buried by the medical establishment. Simoncini discovered that sodium bicarbonate can prevent cancer. Soda neutralizes high levels of acidity in our body and so creates ...

*Shock and consternation after German Finance Minister calls for Greece to postpone elections in April and install a technocratic government *Greek President rejects aggressive German power grab over country; “default better than a German pistol at head” *Hopes grow that the Greek army will over ...

Invisible Opportunity

By Les Visible It seems certain that something will happen in March, simply because the mouthpieces for the murder machine of the west keep talking about Summer and possibly later on. That always means it will be sooner than expected. One of Israel’s many religious holidays based on mayhem ...

By Les Visible It’s not all bad news but the airwaves of the good, are confined to few minds in a small neighborhood that’s scattered far and wide. We’re surrounded by trepanned and unconscious extras; a cast of thousands, moving en masse but the numbers of awakening souls are ...

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) The vaccine-pushing, disease scare-mongering agency known as the CDC has put out a stunning piece of propaganda attacking fresh milk (raw dairy), claiming it is “150 times more dangerous” than pasteurized milk. This is all part of their ...

By Les Visible You mess with Mother nature at your peril. You mess with her representatives at your peril. You turn her into ho’s and bitches and you will get something you never imagined in your darkest nightmare. Your bowels will turn to water and you’ll be in Cellblock 99 where th ...

electric politics

The best way to fix fundamental political problems — sometimes the only way — is first to talk about them. In other words, to act like human beings instead of lab rats. Of course it isn't easy to wrap our minds around our problems, let alone articulate them, but that's what struggles ...

We use money all the time. We talk about money a lot. Some people even love money — some so much they seem to think, like the Egyptian Pharaohs, that they'll be able to take it with them. But does anyone really understand what money is? If we actually did understand it, then, in theory, we ...

Like some predatory colonial power of the not-so-distant past the U.S. seems to think that war might solve our problems with Iran. But it couldn't. Instead, we need the imagination, and courage, to find a compromise. To help us make our way we're extraordinarily lucky then to have Ambassador Pet ...

The North Koreans aren't stupid. Nor are they brainwashed ideological zombies. Their main problem is that for the past sixty some years they've been at war with the U.S., a war the U.S. either doesn't want or know how to end. But might a changing of the guard in North Korea lead to an improvemen ...

Few people know more about nuclear power than a former Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, especially the one who had the lead in responding to Three Mile Island. So when Dr. Victor Gilinsky suggests that it would be reasonable for the U.S. to phase out nuclear power, people shoul ...

TRENTON, NJ: Johnson & Johnson's communications strategy following the announcement that CEO Bill Weldon will step down from his post in April is to emphasize that the decision was years in the making.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Pembina Institute In advance of the February 23 European Commission vote on the European Union's proposed fuel-quality directive, the Pembina Institute has released a backgrounder to answer "some frequently asked questions about ...

22 Feb 2012 - 14:00 The deadline for Canadians to comment on the federal government’s massive wolf-kill caribou recovery strategy is February 22, 2012. For most Alberta boreal woodland caribou herds, the wolf-kill strategy would all ...

Dissident Voice February 23, 2012 Puppets and Lackeys by Marti Hiken and Luke Hiken On RT (Russia Today) television the other night, it was reported that a recent poll indicated that over 50 % of the American people considered Iran to be a threat to the U.S. and felt it would be appropriate to i ...

RT February 23, 2012 US preparing for military intervention in Syria? The US and other NATO countries could soon launch a ground assault on Syria. The final decision will be made soon, following this week’s Tunis conference where allied countries will meet to discuss possible scenarios of milita ...

Diplomacy Behind Pakistan-Iran-Afghan Cooperation By Sajjad Shaukat ==== US bases in Afghanistan and the Gulf will enhance its ability to gather intelligence on Iran. In December, 2011, Iranian authorities recovered a CIA surveillance drone that had been launched from Afghanistan. Currently a wa ...

The Intel Hub | A video compilation has highlighted the fact that many African Americans directly support Ron Paul and believe he is the least racist of all the candidates including President Obama. The corporate controlled media has done everything in their power to demonize Ron Paul as a ...

FRS

Feb 21 2012 by Mohamed DaadaouiOn the one-year anniversary of the February 20 protest movement in Morocco, (henceforth referred to as Feb. 20), the kingdom boasts relatively meager political progress. Despite the much-vaunted reforms and constitutional changes, Morocco has reinvigorated its stat ...

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity, February 2012 Dear Friends, As you know on February 20th, over a dozen rallies and demonstrations were held throughout the US for a “National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners,” including in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, ...

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity, February 2012 Dear Friends, As you know on February 20th, over a dozen rallies and demonstrations were held throughout the US for a “National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners,” including in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, ...

Deccan Herald, Wednesday 22 February 2012 Raipur, Feb 20, 2012 (IANS) Police deny allegation, open to inquiry A 25-year-old man who died in police custody here was a victim of excessive torture, his father alleged on Monday and sought an independent probe. Chhattisgarh Police, however, denied th ...

Deccan Herald, Wednesday 22 February 2012 Raipur, Feb 20, 2012 (IANS) Police deny allegation, open to inquiry A 25-year-old man who died in police custody here was a victim of excessive torture, his father alleged on Monday and sought an independent probe. Chhattisgarh Police, however, denied th ...

Ken O'Keefe

This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...

This is so worthwhile for every Christian to consider. Especially supposedly patriotic American Christians; think about what this short video is saying. Imagine that you, unwittingly or not, are paying for the murder of Jesus Christ's blood relatives. Actually, do not imagine it, know it, becaus ...

Brother Khader, Like so many before you, and surely many more to come, between death with honour or life without it, you have chosen the former. Nothing but love and respect to you my brother, and to all the brothers and sisters of this world who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who resist th ...

Brother Khader, Like so many before you, and surely many more to come, between death with honour or life without it, you have chosen the former. Nothing but love and respect to you my brother, and to all the brothers and sisters of this world who refuse to accept the unacceptable, who resist th ...

This is to the ZioNazi's at ZioBook. For all the good people posting the truth and getting their accounts deleted, go fuck yourself. For all the ZioTrolls coddled and sheltered in their Ziobook home, go fuck yourself again. A person should use Ziobook only as required, then treat it like a so ...

StillSmallVoice

And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...

"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...

Associated Content

A new health care law forces employers to provide insurance that covers FDA-approved prescription contraceptives 100%. Some church-related organizations are outraged that they may have to pay for something the church itself condemns.Contributor: Angela Woods Published: Jan 31, 2012

While Newt Gingrich’s approach to space policy would be heavily weighted toward encouraging the private sector, space observers have been wondering how much the Mitt Romney approach, once it is formulated, will rely on commercial space.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 29, 2012

The Los Angeles Times released details of the confusion surrounding the Demi Moore 911 call, which resulted in a delayed response by paramedics. Looking back on the recent history of the Los Angeles 911 system, it may actually be a study in success.Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 28, 2012

Although Rick Santorum has a political messsage that appeals to a portion of the electorate, he can't get it to the electorate because of a lack of money. Why does the electorate follow the candidate who carries the glitter of the green?Contributor: Hugh Houchin Published: Jan 28, 2012

Popsci - Science

Over at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), which is associated with Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a new study indicates that not only are there many so-called "nomad planets" in our galaxy, but that there may be tens of thousa ...

Space researchers uses deserts, valleys, and freezing lakes to test equipment and simulate procedures on space missions. Here's where they put future exploration to the test - without leaving our planet To get into space, we have to practice at home. That's the idea behind NASA's Earth Analogs ...

Researchers at the University of Vermont have discovered two new proteins on red blood cells that confirm the testable existence of two new blood types. It's an important discovery, one that'll greatly reduce the risk of incompatible blood transfusions among tens of thousands of people. But what ...

Back in the day of the first mammals, horses started out the size of house cats, weighing about 8 pounds and standing only a few inches tall. Then they got even littler, a direct result of the warm temperatures that characterized the Eocene era. Only when Earth cooled down a bit did the beasts g ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Warm air from the sub-tropics is affecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire today and has led to some exceptionally mild temperatures for February. At the old Finningley Met Office site, which is now Robin Hood airport, along with Donna Nook outside Cleethorpes, 18C (64F) has been recorded. These te ...

The company which owns Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which is the largest single producer of electricity and carbon dioxide in the country, has announced that a £1.4 billion plan to build 2 of 3 new dedicated biomass power stations have been shelved. The third of the planned power sta ...

Large parts of the UK are at risk from serious water shortages this summer if rainfall in the next few months continues to be low. Since June 2011, drought has affected Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, and west Norfolk. Now, much of South East England ...

Global temperatures fell quite sharply in January, according to the UAH satellite measure. The anomaly of -0.093C below the 30 year running mean equates to approximately +0.16C above the more standard 1961-1990 time period. As regards 2011 as a whole, according to the Met Office, 2011 was ...

It's been a long time in coming, but there's been a remarkably consistent signal in the last couple of days that later on Saturday into Saturday night a large part of the UK will be affected by the first widespread fall of snow so far this winter. It's a classic meteorological battle between co ...

Internat'l Political Economy

That Japan owes over twice its annual output has been a favourite storyline for assorted end-of-the-world-economy cultists in triggering the next round of global financial meltdown. Nevermind that such predictions have proven woefully inaccurate given the yen strengthening to all-time highs in r ...

I've often harped on the idea that Europe's troubled PIIGS nations shouldn't be receiving IMF funding since the nature of their woes do not primarily deal with balance-of-payments woes the institution was meant to address. Greece simply borrowed too much. Ireland overcommitted to guaranteeing it ...

I have to run so this will be a quick if interesting one: Remember during the 2004 American presidential elections when John Kerry was inveighing against outsourcers with talk about "Benedict Arnold corporations"? What we now have is an interesting Reuters article that takes this line of argumen ...

A running thread throughout this blog's history has been that Americans are not the most cosmopolitan of people. Witness, inter alia, the racist-protectionist treatment of Dubai Ports World, the inability of 90% of their youth to find Afghanistan on a map of Asia despite their government squande ...

Among my most searched-for posts over the years this blog has been in operation have been those concerning the world's busiest ports [1, 2]. Truly, one of the underappreciated facets of globalization has been the expansion of facilities to standardize shipping merchandise throughout the world. B ...

Economic Collapse Blog

How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long. The long-term trends that are ripping our econo ...

The global financial system is not a game of checkers. It is a game of chess. All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default. Unfortunately, that is simply not the ...

The decay of society is so much harder to quantify than economic decline is. The government keeps lots of statistics on things like unemployment and inflation, but it really does not keep track of how sick and twisted people are becoming. Most of us recognize that the character ...

Does it cost you hundreds of dollars just to get to work each month? If it does, you are certainly not alone. There are millions of other Americans in the exact same boat. In recent years, the price of gas in the United States has gotten so outrageous that it has played a majo ...

Once upon a time, anyone that was relatively competent and willing to work hard could go out and easily get a job that would enable that person to financially support a family. Unfortunately, that is simply no longer true anymore. Well paying "middle income jobs" are being rapi ...

E U Times

European Commission has predicted that the eurozone currency bloc faces a deeper recession than previously anticipated, with a 0.3 percent contraction in its GDP now tipped for 2012. The commission previous forecast in November said the economic output in the 17 nations sharing the euro would gr ...

Here in Argentina, when we watch the terrible things that are happening today in Greece, we can only exclaim, “Hey!! That’s exactly what happened in Argentina in 2001 and 2002…!” ­A decade ago, Argentina too went through a systemic Sovereign Public Debt collapse resulting in social turmoil, work ...

Israeli President Shimon Peres has reportedly called on Israeli officials to halt their recently intensified war rhetoric against Iran, describing such anti-Iran remarks as unnecessary warmongering. Peres told the Israeli officials that there is no point in the “unceasing self-intimidation ...

Syrian frontier guards are battling militants who have infiltrated from Turkey, as the army deploys troops to quash hostile forces trapped in the mountains. The clashes highlight claims outside forces are actively fueling the conflict in Syria. ­North to the Syrian city of Aleppo (340 kilometers ...

A top Iranian oil industry official has said some European states have started negotiations with Tehran in order to purchase Iran’s crude oil. “Only European companies with a 2- to 5-year contract with Iran can purchase the country’s crude, otherwise [Tehran's] relations with those companies wil ...

Voiceless Victim

Kevin Rudd, former, and aspiring future Australian Prime Minister demonstrated on Friday that he is prepared to prostitute himself, the truth, and the victims of church violence against children in order to deliver a minor political miracle and shore up his hopes to oust Julia Gillard from the P ...

Are the media actually picking on the catholic church over child sexual abuse, as petulantly claimed by the Vatican’s propaganda machine? Or are catholic church leaders truly the last people in the world any responsible parent would want to have anything to do with their children? Last yea ...

Vatican PR is in overdrive again, trying to ensure there is no possibility of any unauthorised commentary of the so-called “Global Summit on Sexual Abuse” this week, other than their own carefully manipulated spin. Surprisingly, Vatican PR has finally realised how little credibility ...

This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...

The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...

WL Central

TweetThis transcript was taken by hand at Bradley Manning's arraignment on February 23, 2012 at 1:00 p.m., Fort Meade, MD. Please send corrections to carwinb@hushmail.com. Bradley Manning's arraignment was held in same court room as his Article 32 Pretrial Hearing. You can read transcripts fr ...

TweetAustralia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has resigned as Foreign Minister and will challenge currrent PM Julia Gillard on Monday for leadership of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The vote provides an opportunity for Rudd to exact revenge on his former deputy and the "faceless" party f ...

Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 445 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 442 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 640 days. News: WikiLeaks has released a torrent for its insurance file, which is 64.3 GB. ...

TweetThis article is a continuation of the ideas begun in A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world While revolutions around the world are in the streets for democracy, we need to look at that very poorly defined and all encompassing word by specifics, to review what we are asking for and ...

Tweet WikiLeaks has been financially blockaded without process for 442 days. Julian Assange has been detained without charge for 439 days. Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without trial for 636 days. News: UNESCO held a 2-day conference entitled, “The Media World after WikiLeaks a ...

U N News

The United Nations human rights office has called on Mexican authorities to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the killing over the weekend of 44 inmates at a prison in the country's north, apparently by members of an organized criminal group.

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murders of two Brazilian journalists earlier this month and called for thorough investigations of the killings.

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murders of two Brazilian journalists earlier this month and called for thorough investigations of the killings.

An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on Uruguayan authorities to implement measures to provide access to health and sanitation to its poorest and most marginalized communities.

The United Nations today voiced concern over the recent wave of violence in Latin American prisons, citing overcrowding, a lack of access to basic services, judicial delays, and excessive pre-trial detention as some of the causes which have worsened conditions in detention facilities.

Conspiracy Reality TV

Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...

Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.

You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

Life is good. Many-fold, tangled life is better. Many-fold, tangled life not hobbled by Man’s will is best. What do I mean? By “life is good,” I am not writing a television commercial about sitting with your buddies in front of a widescreen TV for a Superbowl party with Budweiser while wives and ...

The toilet paper on your grocery store shelves may have a direct impact on the 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild. Learn more about how you can help through World Wildlife Fund and make a pledge to never buy paper products linked to rain forest and tiger habitat destruction.

This issue made the news last fall, but we thought it would be good to keep the topic active and to remind our readers to look around for real and potential hazards to our wild friends. Bird Death Pipes “Hollow metal and plastic (PVC) pipes and posts are found throughout the world and serv ...

We Know the Lies

Below is one of the strangest stories in financial history, one involving the US government lying about hundreds of thousands of tons of imaginary gold, illegal wire transfers and loans totalling $15 trillion. ~ Video - related article read more

On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. read more

Tarpley

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 24, 2012 [download video] [download audio] A political analyst says the Friends of Syria conference expected to be held in Tunisia’s capital Tunis aims at creating a scenario in Syria similar to the one, which materialized in Libya. What follows is a ...

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net February 23, 2012 A reliable Russian source in Syria warns that al Jazeera is about to launch within hours a major false flag provocation. Al Jazeera will allege that 17 children have been killed by Assad’s forces. These children are already dead, and ...

Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV February 23, 2012 originally posted on PressTV on Feb.18, 2012 [download video] [download audio] The US tries to break up existing countries and turn them into “rump states”, such as Libya that is descending into chaos, an analyst tells Press TV re ...

Modern Survivalism

A survival kit is as a survival kit does. What does it do? It serves a purpose. To help get you safely to your next destination, be it literally or metaphorically. A survival kit is… An insurance policy. A personal and unique set of ‘tools’. Different from one to the nex ...

Reader Question: I’d like to hear opinions on canned vs freeze dried food in an area where clean water would not be abundant in a disaster, Southern California. Answer: The thought that immediately comes to mind is find a way to store more water! Not only would you need water to rehydrate ...

Keep an emergency kit for your car/truck/vehicle, a survival kit in a bag (backpack) which contains items that will give you a better chance of success if you become stranded for any reason and have to make it on your own for a time. In this video, I am demonstrating a very basic emergency kit, ...

Yesterday Ken talked about disasters and emergencies discussing the differences between the two. I would like to touch upon a disaster plan for you and your family. We have discussed this before but the importance of making your own disaster plan will not only prepare you, but it will also open ...

Planning for disaster WILL make a difference. It will alleviate undo suffering and hardship for you and whoever you have included in your disaster plan. Most people do not plan for the unexpected, and seldom consider the disaster insurance benefits of planning for disaster. Benefits of Pl ...

Fast Company

Is Google Fiber a Trojan Horse? While it doesn't take much for Google to make headlines, this week's news that it filed applications to operate a video service in Kansas City was much more than your average "Hey look what Google did" story. From the release of Google TV to its recent YouTube red ...

Last week Foxconn pushed its starting salaries up from 900 yuan ($143) to 1,800 yuan per month, the latest and biggest in wage upticks that began in 2010. Foxconn did this for one main reason: international attention focused on the firm and associated ethical questions surrounding its treatment ...

Let's do the weekly electric boogaloo through a menagerie of mechanical wonderthings. No humans required. Bot Vid: Truss-ClimberCornell boffins have put together an autonomous truss-climbing robot. It's not something you'll find navigating the inner clothing of William Shatner, instead being a ...

Amazon's gearing up a Brazilian launch for the Kindle this summer. Their strategy? Sell their product for far cheaper than the local competition, take a hit in import duties, and watch the profits roll in.The Amazon Kindle is an ubiquitous piece of tech in the United States, Canada, and Europe. ...

In her sophomore year at Chicago's ACE Technical Charter High School, Kewauna Lerma had a 2.25 GPA. Yet when Jeff Nelson met Kewauna, he knew she was capable of getting into and graduating from a four-year college. Nelson is the cofounder and Executive Director of Urban Students Empowered (US Em ...

"I have seen the tree, but the roots are elsewhere." - Indian proverb. Whether from the helms of the Syrian regime or through the "opposed" western media such as Al Jazeera and its helms in the Arab world, the hegemonic representation of the Syrian revolution is th ...

Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, killed in Syria on Wednesday reminds us all of the importance of front line reporting (1) along with a French photographer, Remi Ochlik and, on the previous day a Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed. Syria’s citizen journalists: an artic ...

In October 2011, the newly renovated Sourp Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church reopened in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir. Among the hundreds gathered to celebrate its first mass in over ninety years were local men and women who had chosen the occasion to be baptized into the ...

mediagazer

Robert Andrews / paidContent: Condé Nast Aims To Unify Tablet And Mobile Magazine Production — Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devi ...

Giles Tremlett / Guardian: Spanish newspaper Público to stop printing — Web-only version of left-leaning paper will continue to published — Spain's Público newspaper, the left-leaning daily that tried to take on El País, has given up the ...

Jerry Hirsch / Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Times launches new membership program — Starting March 5, online readers will be asked to buy a digital subscription at an initial rate of 99 cents for four weeks. Readers who do not subscribe will be able to read 15 stories ...

Chemtrail News

I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...

World News - Top Stories

ZonalMarking.net's Michael Cox uses the StatsZone app – from FFT and Opta, available now – to preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action... Sunday’s North London derby is the biggest Premier League fixture of the weekend, with Tottenham threatening to finish above Arsena ...

TUNIS, Tunisia—The United States, Europe and Arab countries were set Friday to back a proposal for Syria's president to step aside and allow in humanitarian assistance to end a brutal crackdown against opponents. American, European and Arab officials are meeting in a major internationa ...

Fernando Torres has been dropped from the Spain squad for next week's friendly against Venezuela. GettyImagesFernando Torres has not been in good form • The Euro 2008 and 2010 World Cup-winning striker has been struggling for form at Chelsea, netting just four times in all competition ...

Washington, February 24: US President Barack Obama Thursday vowed to keep developing new sources of energy, blaming instability in Middle East and increasing demand from emerging markets for the recent gas price hike. According to the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), the US average retail ...

John Abraham has claimed that actors do not need to lead a glamorous lifestyle to show off their wealth. The actor most recently appeared in the action film Desi Boyz with Akshay Kumar. Abraham told The Times of India: "I know everyone makes a big deal about stardom, but I lead a very simple ...

The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri's sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?

Anna's News

Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...

Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...

Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...

Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...

Medical Marijuana

2012election.procon.org "Did You Know?" Little Known Facts about US Presidents – Did you know that eight US Presidents have died while in office? (Four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.) Did you know that the shortest presidency in the history of the office lasted just 31 d ...

2012election.procon.org - Should the US continue to support the embargo against Cuba? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Paul is Con. Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, and Obama are Pro, and Johnson is Not Clearly Pro or Con.

2012election.procon.org - Should all Americans have a right (be entitled) to basic health care? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. Obama is Pro. Paul and Johnson are Con, and the other four candidates are Not Clearly Pro or Con.

2012election.procon.org - Should illegal immigrants have access to social services such as Medicaid, welfare, or public education? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. None of the candidates are Pro. Paul and Santorum are Con, and Obama, Gingrich, Roemer, Romney, and ...

2012election.procon.org - Should the US require mandatory national service in the form of a draft or required civil service? - Read the 2012 presidential candidates’ positions on this issue. None of the candidates are Pro. Obama, Paul, Gingrich, and Romney are Con.

Gyrovague's Raves

Jonah Lehrer In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.B.D.O., decided to write a book in which he shared his creative secrets. At the time, B.B.D.O. was widely regarded as the most innovative firm on Madison Avenue. Born in 1888, Osborn had spent much of h ...

C. Max Magee … we thought it might be fun to compare the U.S. and U.K. book cover designs of this year’s Morning News Tournament of Books contenders. Book cover design never seems to garner much discussion in the literary world, but, as readers, we are undoubtedly swayed by the little bill ...

Patrick Allitt Is it true that the Bible teaches peace and the Koran war? Only if you approach the books selectively, taking the gentlest of Jesus’ teachings and setting them against the harshest of Muhammad’s. Philip Jenkins’s challenging new book Laying Down the Sword shows that the Bible cont ...

Sales of Charles Dickens’s books in his lifetime ON THE death of Charles Dickens in 1870 the Times lamented, “The loss of such a man is an event which makes ordinary expressions of regret seem cold and conventional”. It was the prodigious popularity of his work that went furthest to explai ...

The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place By Marc Tracy|December 19 By the time Christopher Hitchens died last week at the age of 62, the arc of his intellectual career was so notorious, ingrained ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

The Royal Society has launched the final report of the Brain Waves series, which investigate developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy. Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security examines the potential applications of neuroscience in a military and law ...

This week marks the first anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt that resulted in the overthrow of the then president, Hosni Mubarak. Yesterday, as new rounds of demonstrations were taking place in Egypt, I attended the launch of an Institute of Development Studies bulletin on The Pulse of ...

In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...

FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...

The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful report by Kieron O’Hara ...

NAU Resistance

Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...

"On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."

By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...

LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...

SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...

WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...

WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

Personal Statement from Kurt Haskell, Delta 253 Passenger Kurt Haskell. I wish to thank the Court for allowing me these 5 minutes to make my statement. My references to the government in this statement refer to the Federal Government excluding this Court and the prosecution. On Christmas Day 2 ...

Video here: http://www.corbettreport.com/tsa-tyrants-sucker-america/ by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com February 21, 2012 Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Eyeopener report for BoilingFrogsPost.com. Of all of the myriad agencies, bureaucracies, laws and le ...

A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz wave ...

On tonight's show I am joined by Josh Jackson, to discuss the escalating middle east crisis in the wake of news that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This development is discussed in the context of the crony capitalist system, whi ...

Female passengers say they are being targeted by TSA screeners for sexual harassment, with one Texas woman being forced to pass through a naked body scanner three times so chuckling male TSA workers in a back room could get a good look at her “cute” figure. The incident occurred at ...

Winter, with its short days, sleet-filled commutes and cacophony of coughs and sneezes, is an energy-sapping exercise in patience, but Oceana – in addition to protecting sea turtles, sharks, corals and the like – has just the right medicine to carry you into the Spring with health and vigor…tr ...

A Spanish dancer's eggs, also known as a "sea rose." [Via Wikimedia Commons] Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day! Here on land, we give our sweethearts flowers to show our love. But what is the undersea equivalent of a rose? To answer that question, we’ve chosen three undersea creatures who seem ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

The Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier. Although highly advanced , the United States was still looking to develop another test bed that would go even faster and solve problems with flight at higher speeds. The first problem that needed to be solved was the thermal barrier. Extreme heat resulted fr ...

Not every MIG was a fighter aircraft. One in particular was single engine high wing forward canard aircraft covered in cloth and configured with a pusher propeller. The idea was to discover the aeronautical characteristics of a forward canard on supersonic aircraft. The Mikoyan i Gurevich ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration is a government agency whose job is to secure the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. It is also the overseer for weapons development. The problem here is that the NNSA is a lot like Congress and lobbying firms. One hand washes the other, an ...

Boing Boing is my favorite blog. Recently they featured a piece about the huge forging presses that once made heavy bombers and gigantic transports in the United States. This is from an article from The Atlantic Magazine and it is about the mammoth machines we created to make the machines we use ...

1934 to 1936. One of the first, if not the first airplane designed without a rear vertical stabilizer was the Sigma 4 SAM. “M” stands for the designer, Aleksandr Moskalyev who was unconstrained by the trends of his day and used an incredibly agile imagination to come up with b ...

Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. After all the words written and spoken about “Wall Street” and the “1%,” and the ties between those at the top with DC Insiders, the 2012 campaign season clearly shows that the power of that relationship remains intac ...

The Red Cross has reached the city of Homs. Juan Cole retweeted the link for the video above, as “Friends of Syria” try to maneuver a way through this cricis, which will not be easy. A CBS News report on what’s happening in Syria is even worse, including a map of documented tor ...

The Washington Post has an amusing poll on Rick Santorum and women. I hope Republican primary voters buy into it. But in fact, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth control and his view that the federal government sho ...

Watch Clinton on PBS. See more from American Experience. The rise once again of religious conservatives in the 2012 primary season is a perfect setting for “Clinton,” the PBS American Experience documentary of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency. Today’s religious cons ...

Hudson New York

Who says there are no peace talks going on in the Middle East? The peace process is underway in the Middle East, but not between Israel and the Palestinians. The only peace talks that are taking place these days are between the Palestinian Authority and

The British government has unveiled a new "integration strategy" designed to "champion a united British identity." The new policy will require immigrants seeking admission to live in the United Kingdom to learn English and adhere to "mainstream" British

"I Am a Bearded Police Officer" is the name of the new coalition established by the group of Egyptian police officers who asked the Ministry of Interior to grow beards to follow in the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad. The Saudi-owned media outlet

A recent analysis published on the Web site of Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, slammed the treatment of journalists in Turkey, saying that many journalists -- especially Kurdish and leftist sympathizers -- face extremely harsh legal treatment.

The French-based North African media outlet, Le Courrier de l'Atlas, recently published an article on Salafists in Tunisia, describing who is who in the jihadist Tunisian scene. Although the Salafists are a small minority group there, they are extremely

Urban Survival

$5 gas, to be more precise. While there are millions of barrels parked on oil tankers, the middle east war fears are being stoked to keep the profits up for the people in the energy business, no doubt so they … Continue reading →

Yes, that abscess under tooth #29 is doing much better, thank you. And, yes, I read every email sent in by concerned readers about NOT getting a root canal, but we need to have us a little discussion here about … Continue reading →

Yep, still on schedule for the world to fall apart in the March>May period, and this morning’s headlines sure don’t give us much reason to back away from that expectation. True, the jobless filings were holding at four-year lows in … Continue reading →

Here’s a dandy to start off our quest for the truth, which last we heard lived on a side street between Reality Avenue and Woo-Woo Drive… “Well Mr. Ure isn’t this peculiar, I was leaving the YMCA, I looked to … Continue reading →

Call the Nobel Committee! In Monday’s column, I explained the hard lesson about lifestyle and loans from the National Bank of Dad. As luck would have it, this morning serves up the important lesson that…you’re going to love this….Idiocy is … Continue rea ...

Radical Chic

Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...

I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]

This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]

It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...

Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...

Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...

When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...

Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...

Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced late yesterday that he is scrapping "revamping" his much-maligned transportation legislation (H.R. 7). In the face of intense opposition from a ...

Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Entrepreneurs have to be optimists. They invest their energy, time, and money based on their vision for the future. Many times their optimism isn’t justified and their ent ...

Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC As many of my readers may know, I grew up in the southern Appalachian Mountains, which had everything to do with my eventually finding a career in environmentalism. I&rs ...

Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco The European Union failed to achieve a decisive vote today on its Fuels Quality Directive and will need to revisit the issue in June of this year, after an i ...

My apologies for the slow news feed today, a busy day at work combined with me not feeling well again made it difficult to track reports. Hopefully we’ll catch up with any we missed tomorrow. With that said, here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Miscon ...

A couple things before I start today… First, I just found out that the person who inspired me to create this site has retired his amazing Simple Justice blog. I know it will be sorely missed not just by me, but by many many people out there. Yet I’m sure that he’ll keep doing [...]

Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of February 18-19, 2012: Tennessee prosecutors have dismissed 95 cases involving a trooper who is being sued and was fired for letting a man he chased burn to death in a car crash. [ ...

Total Collapse

Despite public denials, military preparations for intervention in the horrendous Syrian crisis are quietly afoot in Washington, Paris, Rome, London and Ankara. President Barack Obama is poised for a final decision after the Pentagon submits operational plans for protecting Syrian rebels and bele ...

Tehran this week hardened its nuclear and military policies in defiance of tougher sanctions and ahead of international nuclear talks. The threat by Iran’s armed forces deputy chief Gen. Mohammad Hejazi of a preemptive strike against its “enemies,” was accompanied by its refusal to allow UN nucl ...

After a report from Iranian media, the Pentagon has responded with a claim that they had no indication that any Iranian ships had docked in Syria this past weekend. According to Reuters, Iran’s Press TV reported that two Iranian warships dock at Syria’s Port of Tartous on Saturday, February 18th ...

Two Iranian warships that docked in a Syrian port were reported on Tuesday to have left the Mediterranean, sailing south through the Suez Canal toward the Red Sea. It was not clear whether the vessels, which had docked at the Syrian port of Tartus, had unloaded cargo or had visited the port as a ...

Egyptian Presidential Candidate Tawfiq Okasha declared last week that the Egyptian Army will engage in armed warfare against Israel, the United States and the European Union within three months. The declaration, made in a segment translated into English by The Middle East Media Research Institut ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

Germany's 37 million households will soon be paying half as much on their annual electricity bills as Australian households. An average German household pays just $1060, or about $88 a month, for electricity to run their computers, lights and other household appliances, while an Australian ...

Wind turbines. You either love them (like 75 per cent of us), or hate them (15 per cent). Or, you couldn’t care less. Coal mines: you either love them, like those who reap their profits (20 per cent), or you hate them (80 per cent), like those who have to live near them. The problem of differing ...

The award-winning Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan is now available on your iPad! This complete blueprint for powering the Australian economy with 100% renewable energy contains fully hyperlinked references which take you directly to the web-based sources. To download the app click h ...

Published last November, Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and the planet made some fundamentally important points: that solutions to climate change must allow for economic development in poorer countries; that a large part of the solution is a ...

When Alcoa's Point Henry workers met the Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday they should have advised her to call the aluminium company's bluff and dismiss its blatant rent seeking tactics. Just over 12 months ago, the company's majority owner, Alcoa Inc of the US, declared the Australian ope ...

Monga Bay ( News )

For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar's wildlife rapidly diminishing— such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedgehog-looking tenrecs found no-where else in t ...

In the classic novel, Watership Down, rabbits must flee their countryside home to make way for a new housing development. Now, the land that inspired author Richard Adams' much-beloved mythic tale is slated to bulldozed for 2,000 new homes. Located in the UK county of Berkshire, near the town of ...

A pioneering project to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in a former conflict zone in Colombia has won gold certification under the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) standard. The accreditation will help local communities access carbon finance in their efforts to safeguard bi ...

Scientists have discovered the first ever insect in the Ripipterygidae family in Belize. Measuring only 5 millimeters (0.19 inches), the tiny insect uses its powerful legs to leap away from predators much like a grasshopper.

Many ideals, actions, and movements considered as fringe or radical by the standards of mainstream culture have gained prominence as global biodiversity withers and the biogeochemical cycles of the entire Earth System are upset by human activities. As endangered species and ecosystems are incre ...

Sierra Express

Insinuations are up about the looming threat of the main opposition plan to boycott the November polls on reasons many believe would be their usual syndrome of workout protests. In the recent past, the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is often ripe in workout protests and have ...

Consequent to media assertions that the governing All People’s Congress (APC) party funded the traveling cost of Mohamed Bangura to New York, same has been tagged as baseless and unfounded. It is a fact that Mohamed Bangura, who doubles as leader for the United Democratic Movement (UDM) pa ...

As part of its massive exploration and investment drive in the Africa sub-region, African Petroleum Limited has made yet another significant oil discovery. The company has announced that it found a total of 32 metres (105 feet) of net oil pay in two zones in Liberia,West Africa. The company said ...

In a move to address the spate of accidents caused by Okada Riders countrywide, the Attitudinal and behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat has on Wednesday February 22nd 2012 entreated the riders to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sierra Leone Police and Sierra Leone Road Transpo ...

The Ministry of Energy and Water Resources through the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) has received funding from the (Islamic Development Bank) and BADEA for the rehabilitation of the Kabala Water Supply scheme to meet the increased demand for pipe born water by residents. (Photo: Cross-se ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

It put a dampener on the holidays but all this rain is pumping much-needed millions into the economy. From his office window, Bruce Wills sees the ears of sheep poking above a paddock of grass growing faster than it can be eaten....

Pastoral Dairy Investments, a specialist investment fund led by New Zealand's dairy industry and investment figures, launched an initial public offer yesterday aimed at raising a minimum of $25 million for the purchase of South Island...

Pastoral Dairy Investments, a company associated with farm management firm MyFarm, plans to raise at least $75 million by selling shares to the public and tapping high-wealth individuals to invest in dairy farms.PDI will offer 25...

Shanghai Pengxin yesterday jumped into the PR war by labelling an offer by the Sir Michael Fay-led consortium for the 16 Crafar farms as a "phantom bid" which would result in fewer economic benefits to New Zealand than its own conditional...

A2 Corporation has more than trebled its profit as it looks to start selling its milk in the UK and Ireland this year.Net profit for the six months ended December 31 was $3.1 million compared with $894,000 the previous year, with...

The Bovine

From Liz Reitzig at the Farm Food Freedom Coalition Baraboo, WI—Food sovereignty activists from around North America will meet at this tiny town on March 2 to support Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, who has a court … Continue reading →

From Tom Laskawy, on Grist.org: “How does the livestock industry talk about antibiotics? Well, it depends on who’s doing the talking, but they all say some version of the same thing. Take the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; they say there is “no … Continue reading →

From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Wisconsin’s Attorney General has signaled his willingness to go ahead with the possibly provocative step of throwing dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger into jail. In a package of documents sent to Hershberger, … Continue readin ...

From Doug Powell at Barfblog: “Canada has the best health care system in the world. And really clean water. And really safe food. And a lot of delusional people who apparently think repetition rather than data makes something true. This … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan sticks with his recession call. This time his call is based on coincident indicators as the following video shows. CNBC has an interesting feature where you can click on any snip of generated text and it will take you to that spot in the interview. However, d ...

A number of proposals on taxes and the budget have come out recently, one by President Obama, one by Mitt Romney, and one by a friend, John Mauldin. Every one of the proposals are fatally flawed, most of the for multiple reasons. Before one can fix a problem one must understand it. In ...

Bernanke is hell bent on producing price inflation. He has succeeded, just not where he wants most. What Bernanke desperately wants is for housing prices to rise because that more than anything will help the banks and all the foreclosed properties they are sitting on. The Bernanke Fed has c ...

The hit parade of demands on Greece keeps right on marching. The Troika has 38 new demands in addition to 10 pages of prior demands that have not been met. The ten-page list of prior demands need to be met by the end of the month. Fortunately this is leap year so Greece gets an extra day. ...

The one and only thing that might possibly spare Greece the agony of a completely worthless currency is Greece's small hoard of 111 tons of gold. Pact With the Devil Yet, in the fine print in the latest deal, Greece’s lenders will have the right to seize its gold reserves according to ...

Waiting For The Signal These pages that bring us together are the fire in the cave above the stream, no dream we move in and out of, faceless, expendable, waiting for a burst of wings to spill our pooled bones like coins over the chilled and silent ground we fell in love with so long [...]

Curtis Mayfield This week’s music pick, Diamond in the Back, is from the incredible Curtis Mayfield. This song was remembered more for its “Gangsta Lean” line and it’s cool funky rhythm. It was, however, an anthem for being thankful for what you’ve got. That said, i ...

BFP Nightly Quote “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . ...

BFP Nightly Quote “It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to ...

bloody crossroads

The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →

Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →

For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Tragic news from Nick Cutmore, Secretary General of the International Maritime Pilots’ Association… We have the sad duty to inform you of the death of a colleague whilst on duty. Captain Rudi Pape, [...]

Blogging Canadians

Canada under Conservatives not what it used to be by Joan Baxter "It is interesting that Laurent Le Pierrès seems to believe Canada hasn’t fundamentally changed, and he can still look his "country in the mirror" ("Justin jumps in where angels fear to tread," Feb. 17 column). I was also happy to ...

John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record?? -Ottawa Citizen seems to be a bit of a player in this Conservative 'outrage'. -Gutter politics you say? CREEKSIDE

Blocked paths and robbery by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog February 15, 2012 In the old days reavers known as "highwaymen" would block roads with downed trees so they could rob travelers. Some of the intended victims didn't submit so easily, an ...

"From the Tory benches the prime minister (Pearson) was greeted by jeers and hoots and shouts of derision. 'Vote with pride', "All right," exclaimed Mr. Pearson, "they have turned it down with jeers and insults, but we will vote with pride." Shouts, screams, desk-banging - even obscene gestures ...

Available without a warrant Under the new bill, the six identifiers of telecommunications subscribers that police, intelligence and Competition Bureau officials can obtain without a warrant from their telecommunications service provider are: Name. Address. Telephone number. Email address. Inte ...

CUNY SPS Community Blog

Hi everyone, my name is Coy. The year 2011 was a year of opportunities, challenges, and new experiences. My first semester as a CUNY SPS student greatly expanded my perspectives as I found myself introduced to the vast amount of resources we – students, workers, and citizens of a digital world – ...

2011 is behind us and now we’ve embarked on a new year, 2012. Last year was a pretty good year, especially for me in academia. As many students can attest, the beginning of a new semester can bring with it, new challenges, fresh perspectives and even elevated stresses. In my experience, as a mo ...

I had a different blog post almost completely written, but then a friend of mine forwarded an email to me entitled, “WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLFRIENDS OF OBAMA?”. I replied, “Are you serious?” and thus began yet another crisis in our friendship since high school and my scrapp ...

One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...

Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...

Dissident Voice

People talk about collapse like it’s a bad thing. The Department of Homeland Security flags the word collapse itself for surveillance. But collapse makes the world go round. Anyone trained as a technocrat can tell you it’s a simple matter of oscillation, damping and convergence &#821 ...

All over planet millions of people die of hunger every year. It is not a secret. Our media agencies tell us such facts quite often. Speaking about global inequality is not taboo in Western liberal democracies. To state that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is to repeat ...

High Noon is a 1952 morality play about people deciding whether or not to stand up to the forces of corruption and criminality. Scenes from it often come to mind, since I’ve repeatedly seen people around me facing up to analogous situations here in Oakland, at the docks and also in the pla ...

The world of journalism and that of the broader reading public suffered a major loss last week with the death of Anthony Shadid in Syria. Shadid one of the most daring, and daringly honest, journalists in the world succumbed to an asthma attack at the age of 43 last Thursday while on assignment ...

This is a song about sweatshop labor, export processing zones, and the economy. Please share and spread the word (and of course get involved). If you are interested (or you think you know someone who might be interested) in adding your own music/tracks/beats (or better vocals) to the mix, you ...

Destructionist

When I voted for Barack Obama back in 2008, it wasn't because he was African-American. I voted for him because he told "We the People" that he would work to change the epidemic of corruption now infecting Washington D.C. and that he would ensure transparency where there was none. But once he ...

“Let’s cut through all the bullshit,” reads a recent blog post from Sheehan. “There is no monetary value large enough that can be placed on a human life or the love of a mother for her child.” “I consider that my debt to this country was paid in full when my son, Casey, was recklessly ...

An L.A. Times report which characterizes the Sovereign Citizen movement as “a major threat” on a par with Islamic extremism infers that “more than 100,000 Americans” are domestic terrorists as a result of their affiliation with the group. The article, entitled ‘Sovereign citizen’ movement now ...

What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if “one person, one vote” is just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if democracy is dangerous to personal freedom ...

To Do

It's about Michigan's renewable energy law which requires 10% of the state's power to come from renewable sources. That state policy has helped bring down the price of renewable energy to levels cheaper than coal, and has created millions of dollars in ...

By Christina Williams Wind energy is among the renewable sources covered by the small pot of cash available under the Renewable Energy Development Grants program. The Oregon Department of Energy issued temporary rules this week for the Renewable Energy ...

As I reported in my most recent article, "Green Jobs: Renewable Energy Stocks, Investments", renewable energy stocks showed rapid growth in early 2012. This growth followed a major renewable energy milestone - a total of $1 trillion in global clean ...

West Central Renewable Ammonia Development LLC has been awarded a major state grant — for $450000 — to help take a proposed biomass-into-anhydrous-ammonia project to the next stage. WILLMAR, Minn. — West Central Renewable Ammonia Development LLC has ...

Human Habitat

The state Department of Ecology is seeking to fine Double H farms $165000 for what it calls illegal dumping. But the agency's failure to follow state records law in the case has resulted in it owing $101000 in penalties and attorney fees.

OLYMPIA – A special advisory committee providing informal comment and recommendations to help the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) update and improve the state's oil spill readiness – or contingency – plan rule will meet in Lacey on Thursday, ...

SEATTLE – The state Department of Ecology (Ecology), US Coast Guard, the Seattle Fire Department, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) and BNSF Railway (BNSF) are responding to an oil spill at the company's railroad yard at Interbay in Seattle.

Ecologists are increasingly finding it useful to think of parasites, such as ticks, as micro-predators and have been mining predator-prey theory for insights into parasite-host ecology. One of those insights is that predators don't just graze at will, ...

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Water Power

A western Pennsylvania woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water contained chemicals that could be from nearby gas drilling. At least 10 households in the rural Woodlands ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- California American Water will commence the second phase of its multi-million dollar Parkway water main replacement and meter installation project this week. During this phase, the company will ...

New York state officials have backed away from tough regulations for ridding ballast water of invasive species that the maritime industry says would bring international shipping in the Great Lakes to a halt. The rules, which had been scheduled to take ...

The case has far-reaching implications for how local water authorities can regulate the amount of groundwater a private property owner pulls from their land. It's a decision made all the more important by the fact that much of Texas is still suffering ...

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